FLASH-LIGHT  VIBRATIONS 
Color  is  the  master-key  which  unlocks  the  university  of  Nature. 


"Intelligence"  and  "light"  are  the  self  and  same  things  and  in  this  book  are  used 
interchangeably  and  equally. 


Vibrations  of  Light  and  Color  move  in  the  Mineral,  ascend  in  the  Vegetable,  awaken 
in  the  Animal  and  think  in  the  Human. 


Ideas,  or  collections  and  re-collections  of  harmonious  vibrations,  produce  happiness 
and  self  control,  thus  producing  a  contented  soul  and  peace  of  mind. 


Play  on  your  natural  key  note  and  vibrate  the  color  tones  of  harmony.    Thus  be  in 
tune  with  and  control  of  your  emotional,  musical  and  perceptible  color. 


MORAL  VIBRATIONS 

We  can  never  vibrate  high  and  strong, 
If  we  don't  admit  when  we  are  wrong. 


First  to  my  dear  sisters 

Emily  and  Edith 

who  have  been  a  source 

of  encouragement  and  inspiration, 

and  next  to  my  pupils, 
the  author  gratefully  dedicates 
this  book  of  Essays,  Lessons  and 
Flashlights 


our  ffitgljt 


Copyrighted  1921 

By  Ernest  J.  Stevens 

San  Francisco,  California 


Set  up  and  elecirotyped  1920-21 


AH  rights  reserved 


VIBRATIONS 

X" 

THEIR  PRINCIPLES 

LIGHTANDCOLORS 

THEIR  USES 


ESSAYS,  LESSONS,  HEALTH  HINTS 
AND  FLASH-LIGHTS 

BY 
KKNKST  /  STKVF.NS,  M.  S.,   Ph.  l> 


PRICE  FIVE  DOLLARS 


PUBLISHED  AND  ILLUSTRATED  BY  THE 

STEVENS  LIGHT  AND  COLOR  RESEARCH  STUDIOS 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CALIFORNIA 
1920-21 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS 


Dedication 

Illustration  of  Sun  Bursting  Through 

the  Golden  Gate 

Illustration  of  Lamp  of  Knowledge 
Table  of  Contents 
1921  Photo  of  Author 
Author's  Foreword 
Introductory 
Publisher's  Note 

CHAPTER  I 

Science  and  Truth 

Light  for  the  Coming  or  Forward- 

Looking  Man 

Electro-Magnetic  Vibrations 
Creative  Energy,  Light  and  Colors 
Physio-Mental  Vibrations 
Physical  Vibration 

CHAPTER  II 

Manifestation  of  Radiant  Energy 
Silent  Vibrations 
Nature's  Scale  of  Vibration 
Science,  Light  and  the  Bible 

CHAPTER  III 

Light  Is  a  Force  and  Vibration 
The  Elementary  Physics  of  Light 
Mouth  and  Throat  Vibrations 
Reproductive  Vibrations 
The  Master  Keys  for  Master  Minds 


CHAPTER  IV 

Spiritual  Magnetic  Waves 

Breathing  Vibrations 

White  Consciousness 

Friendly  Shake  Vibrations  (A 
Poem) 

The  Sun's  Beauty  Shop 

Mental  and  Moral  Effects  of  Light 

Exercise— Bottled  Sunshine— and 
Colors 

Our  Solar  System  Chemist 

Healing  by  Vibration;  or,  The  Law 
of  Light  and  Color  Therapeu- 
tics 

Twelve  Health  Vibration  Rules 
CHAPTER  V 

Color  Psychology  and  Psycho- 
Therapy 

The  Measure  of  Color  in  Health 
and  Disease 

Colors  and  Morals 

Emotional  Reminders 

Psychology  of  Color 

Color— Sources  of  Information 

Star  Light  and  Colors 

Woman's  Radiance 

CHAPTER  VI 

Breathing  Color  Vibrations 
How  Nature  Colors  the  Cheeks 
Congestion  Is  the  Only  Disease 
Visibility  of  Seven  Octaves 


The  Soul's  Vibration 

Colored  Lights — A  Means  of  Diag- 
nosis and  Cure 

A  Sunshine  Soul  for  Human  En- 
ergy and  Color 

Color  Sources  (Special) 

CHAPTER  VII 

The  Author's  Blue  Light  Experi- 
ments 

Electric  Light,  Heat  and  Color 
Foot  Baths 

Red  and  Blue  Colors 

Cold  and  Hot  Vibrations 

Marvels  of  Physio-Psycho  Chrom- 
opathy 

Blue  to  Violet  and  Green 

Color  Affinities  and  Blending 

Triad  of  Color,  Form  and  Sound 

CHAPTER  VIII 

Color  Symbolism,  Thoughts, 
Emotions,  Passions  and  Ef- 
fects 

Color  Sources  and  Realms 

Sound  and  Color 

Pancoast's  "Blue  and  Red  Lights" 

How  to  Arrange  Colors  in  Elec- 
tric Light  Cabinets 

The  Science  of  Keeping  Young 

To  Be  Sunful,  Soulful,  Songful  (A 
Poem  by  E,  J.  S.) 

Radio-Vitant  Applicators 

Our  Light  and  Color  Self 

Law  of  Color  Correspondence 

The  Light  Bath  Idea 

Necessity  the  Mother  of  Invention 

CHAPTER  IX 

Electrons,  Atoms  and  Motion 


Colors  in  the  Human  Atmosphere 
Sleep  Inducing  Vibrations 
Diagnosing  and  Healing  by  Sound, etc. 
Marvelous  Color  Experiments 
Light  and  Color  Cures 

CHAPTER  X 
Mental  Color  Treatment 
The  Super- Woman  of  Pure  Color 
The  Super-Man  (A  Poem  by  Author) 
Light,  Color  and  Air  Therapeutics 
Unbottling  Sunshine  (A  Poem  by 

E.  J.  S.) 

The  Odic  Lights 
An  Appreciation 

CHAPTER  XI 

Fourth  Dimension  and  Einstein's 

Theory  of  Relativity 
The  Nourishing  Sunshine 
Realization  (A  Poem  by  Author) 
Astral  and  Odic  Forces 
Sleep  and  Rest 
Radium,  the  Great  Radio- Active 

Substance 

APPENDIX  I-BURBANK 

My  June,  1921,  Visit  to  Luther  Burbank 
Color  Thoughts  and  Forms 
Super- Affirmations 
Body  Colors 

APPENDIX  II.— ZONE  THERAPY 

Zone  Breathing  Vibrations  and  a 

Course  of  Lessons 
Healing  Vibrations 
Announcement 
Memoranda 
Index 


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AUTHOR'S  FOREWORD 

The  scientific  and  practical  information  conveyed  in  this  and  my  second  book  (now 
in  preparation)  is  the  result  of  experience,  experiments,  study,  observation  and  the  treat- 
ment of  hundreds  of  patrons  and  with  a  number  of  students  in  connection  with  the  Stevens 
Light  and  Color  Research  Institute,  in  San  Francisco. 

I  feel  under  very  special  obligations  to  Wm.  E.  Poole,  physician  and  surgeon,  who 
for  a,  couple  of  years  has  been  associated  with  me.  Dr.  Poole  for  many  years  has  been  a 
scientific  researcher  and  practitioner  in  his  profession. 

I  feel  very  grateful  to  Ella  R.  Bell,  D.  C.,  who  has  managed  the  demonstration  depart- 
ment with  devotion  and  skill  for  three  and  a  half  years,  and  to  valuable  service  rendered 
by  Dr.  Howard  G.  Ellis,  director  of  the  Electro-Hydro-Mechano  Department  in  connection 
with  our  resident  examining  physician — Gudrun  Friis  Holm,  D.  0.,  M.  D.  (See  page  70.) 

I  hereby  render  thanks  to  my  friend  and  fellow  physicist,  Dr.  Geo.  Starr  White,  M.  D., 
of  Los  Angeles,  whose  interviews  at  my  exhibit  at  the  1915  Exposition  and  at  my  office 
in  this  city  and  several  evenings  at  his  residence  in  the  South,  were  always  inspirational. 

To  Luther  Burbank,  the  author  owes  a  debt  of  gratitude  for  information  received  on 
his  two  visits,  as  described  in  the  Appendix  of  this  book. 

I  sincerely  appreciate  all  those,  who  in  some  degree,  have  come  and  tried  the  benefits 
of  these  marvelous  yet  simple  and  natural  Light  and  Color  applications,  including  Fred 
Emerson  Brooks,  Henry  Frank,  George  Wharton  James  and  Major  P.  Kellogg,  M.  D. 

I  should  not  overlook  the  fact  that  we  have  been  honored  by  having  in  our  courses 
for  "Lesson  Treatments"  a  number  of  professional  people — editors,  physicians,  priests, 
poets,  public  lecturers  of  national  fame,  Christian  Science  and  New  Thought  healers,  etc. 
The  popular  and  able  writer,  Pauline  Jacobson,  was  one  of  the  author's  first  students  for 
a  private  reading  in  Human  Analysis,  resulting  in  her  remaining  in  San  Francisco,  just  pre- 
vious to  writing  her  series  of  articles  in  "The  Evening  Bulletin"  on  "The  Inner  Kingdom." 

I  am  grateful  for  data  received  from  Prof.  MiHiken,  of  the  Chicago  North  West  Uni- 
versity, on  electrons. 

I  am  under  obligations  to  Dr.  J.  W.  Starkey,  a  more  recent  member  of  our  Institute 
staff,  for  her  experiments  with  colored  lights  for  irregularities  of  the  feet ;  also,  a  bouquet 
of  kind  thoughts  for  my  capable  and  cheerfu!  private  secretary,  and  at  least  tihe  passing 
good  word  for  our  sun-ray  Battle  Creek  Sanitarium  graduate  nurse  and  other  skilled 
nurses,  who  assist  in  the  Stevens  Light  and  Color  Research  Institute. 

And,  .finally,  my  thanks  to  the  university  professors  in  Philadelphia  who  were  my  tu- 
tors, and  who  still  encourage  and  give  light  to  my  path, 

Ernest  J.  Stevens,  M.  S. 


INTRODUCTORY 

How  my  mind  has  wandered  around  the  world  as  I  contemplated  why  there  should  be 
so  many  sad,  sallow,  severe  and  "sinful"  faces,  instead  of  sympathetic,  strong,  serene  and 
sunshiny  countenances  with  the  natural,  sweet  disposition  due  to  the  soul's  supply  of  true 
sentiment,  which  reflects  the  soul's  true  colors. 

As  I  searched  for  knowledge,  and  researched  for  simple,  scientific  truths,  I  found  that 
all  manifestations  and  expressions  depend  upon  understanding  the  laws  of  life,  of  love  and 
of  light.  This  marvelous  trinity  is  known  as  truth,  which  governs  alt  the  realizations  of 
life,  here  and  hereafter.  I  had  for  years  been  influenced  with  the  above-mentioned  condi- 
tions, but  as  surely  as  I  learned  the  laws  or  rules  of  Nature,  I  found  myself  coming  out  of 
these  destructive  negatives  and  was  then  able  to  control,  and  finally  conquer,  these  depress- 
ing influences.  After  discovering  my  real  self,  it  became  easy  to  understand  the  creative 
laws  of  inventions  and  art,  as  well  as  to  enjoy  a  greater  degree  of  health  and  inspira- 
tion. For  some  years  my  cup  of  joy  has  been  growing  greater,  and  now  I  find  it  necessary 
to  serve  it  out  increasingly ;  thus,  in  an  humble  way,  I  have  endeavored  to  do ;  and  with  a 
heartfelt  response  to  my  day-dreams  coming  into  a  higher  realization,  I  now  ask  you,  dear 
searcher  for  greater  light  and  higher  octaves  of  color,  to  enjoy  with  me  a  season  of  visits  and 
chats.  May  our  spirits  unselfishly  commune  together  as  lovers  of  Nature.  May  we  mutual- 
ly be  supplied  and  nourished  with  the  Godly  ambrosia  of  Me,  and  our  thirst  for  sympathy 
be  quenched  by  the  Heavenly  nectar  of  impersonal  love.  This  is  indeed  the  present  truth 
for  us  from  the  One  Great  Mind. 


PUBLISHER'S  NOTE 

The  days  of  miracles  are  here  and  the  world  is  made  better  by  a  science  that  helps  us 
to  move  out  of  the  cave-man  existence,  and  to  encourage  men  and  women  to  live,  to  keep 
young,  strong,  clean,  happy,  full  of  vim  and  success ;  in  other  words,  to  build  a  super  race, 
instead  of  barely  existing  in  the  "old  age,  how  OLD  are  YOU  ?"  negative,  destructive  exist- 
ence. We  can,  dear  reader,  with  more  light  enjoy  more  life — "Life  abundantly."  The 
publisher  following  the  marvelous  example  of  the  energetic  and  youth-renewing  spirit  of 
the  author,  has  also  proven  this  fact  in  a  very  marked  degree,  to  the  surprise  and  joy  of  in- 
numerable friends.  Therefore,  !  fully  endorse  the  following  pages  from  the  standpoint 
of  gratitude  and  encouragement  and  from  the  viewpoint  of  "Let  your  light  so  shine." 
Otherwise,  we  vibrate  back  to  the  cave  existence,  darkness  and  gloom. 


VIBRATIONS 
LIGHT  AND  COLORS 


CHAPTER  I 
SCIENCE  AND  TRUTH 

Universal  science  has  no  modification.  It  is  simply  the  natural  science  or  accumula- 
tion of  data  from  every  natural  channel  that  establishes  a  universal  science,  and  which 
cannot  be  divided  or  modified  by  a  religious  or  sectarian  name ;  however,  there  is  a  realm 
of  truth  in  every  division  of  knowledge. 


-o — 


Understanding  the  basic,  underlying  forces  and  language  of  Nature,  and  being  in 
tune  with  Nature's  laws,  we  can  be  free  from  all  the  inharmonies  of  life. 


LIGHT  FOR  THE  COMING  OR  FORWARD-LOOKING  MAN 

The  Thinker  is  THE  MAN; 

The  Knower  is  THE  SUPER-MAN. 

The  Wise,  Understanding  Man  is  THE  GOD-MAN. 

If  right  thinking  and  researching  develops  a  real  man,  and  if  right  knowledge  ac- 
quired is  power,  then,  in  using  the  knowledge  with  wisdom,  we  are  Godlike.  To  be  Godly 
is  to  vibrate  on  a  high  plane,  and  this  is  represented  by  THE  WHITE  LIGHT  of  intelli- 
gence—a balance  of  the  fine  forces,  i.  e.,  FORM  AND  ORDER,  SOUND  AND  MUSIC 
and  LIGHT  AND  COLORS,  and  these  vibrations  complete  a  universal  triad.  Thoughts 
are  the  result  of  feelings,  and  feelings  are  the  result  of  internal  and  external  vibrations 
conceived  and  perceived  by  the  conscious  mind.  In  the  words  of  Tagore : 

We  kindle  the  Lamp  of  Light  with 
The  candle  of  thy  soul. 


18  VIBRATIONS 


VIBRATION 

Motion,  emotion,  commotion,  rotation,  revolution,  etc.,  are  simply  different  aspects 
of  vibration  and  these  are  represented  according  to  their  rate,  based  on  their  speed  of  mo- 
tion which  is  distinguished  like  the  different  tones  on  the  piano— by  their  coloring. 

Then  there  is  the  red  vibrations  (and  low  yellow)  of  more  or  less  discord.  These  are 
manifested  in  the  mental  or  intellectic ;  while  the  blue  to  violet  and  white  of  harmony  mani- 
fest always  in  the  spiritual  sphere,  which  represents  the  source  of  intelligence. 

Life  is  a  continual  process  of  collecting,  recollecting  and  becoming,  rating  and  vibrat- 
ing. Human  life  becomes  richer,  purer  and  greater  according  to  the  use  of  its  unlimited 
sources.  Do  not,  dear  reader,  fall  behind  the  ideal  levels  of  thought,  and  above  all  beware 
of  taking  a  back  seat  in  the  temple  of  knowledge,  or  of  becoming  static,  stale  or  staid. 


CREATIVE  ENERGY,  LIGHT  AND  COLORS 

There  are  many  elemental  substances,  but  only  one  primary  substance — the  electron, 
the  smallest  known  particle  of  the  atom.  These  are  positive  and  negative  and  are  energy 
producers.  They  are  divided  into  seven  classes  and  operate  in  octaves.  These  are  full 
of  energy  that  produces  vibrations,  which  in  turn  produce  form,  sound  and  color.. 

One  scientist  declares  the  electron,  infinitely  small  atom,  is  one  trillionth  of  a  millimeter 
long. 

There's  nothing  very  new  about  this  theory  that  the  air  we  breathe  and  our  body  itself 
is  built  of  inconceivably  small  particles. 

Lucretius,  born  in  95,  B.  C,  wrote,  "On  the  Nature  of  Things." 
"We  perceive  the  different  smells  of  things,  yet  never  see  the  smells  coming  to  our  nos- 
trils ;  nor  do  we  behold  heat  nor  can  we  observe  cold  with  eyes,  nor  are  we  used  to  seeing 
voices.  Yet  all  these  things  must  have  a  bodily  nature,  since  they  are  able  to  move  the 
senses,  for  nothing  but  body  can  touch  and  be  touched  .  .  .  Nature,  therefore,  works 
by  unseen  bodies." 

Then  he  proceeds  to  "prove"  that  all  things,  no  matter  how  solid,  have  small  pores  in 
them  through  which  the  "powder  of  things"  can  move. 

Energy  is  known  as  active,  kinetic,  and  is  in  motion  and  obeys  vibrating  laws  of  the 
octaves  with  an  outer  sense  used  to  reach  about  seven  octaves,  and  others  can  be  reached 
by  some  persons.  Through  the  medium  of  the  brain  we  could  reach  forty  octaves,  beyond 
these  are  myriads  of  octaves,  all  of  which  operate  on  finer  ethers  and  through  the  fourth 
dimension. 


LIGHT   AND    COLORS _19 

VIBRATIONS 

There  are  three  great  divisions  or  classes  of  vibrations — to  correspond  with  the  three 
great  realms — the  physical,  the  mental  and  the  spiritual — like  as  in  the  solar  spectrum  of 
three  primary  colors  there  are  subdivisions ;  and  as  in  the  colors  we  have  the  two  complete 
classifications  of  white  and  black.  We  also  have  two  general  classifications  of  conscious 
and  unconscious  vibrations,  with  all  their  respective  colorings,  hues,  shades  and  tints. 
Magnetic  waves  come  through  the  unconscious,  while  the  electric  current  comes  directly 
through  the  conscious.  The  former  flows  or  spreads  in  waves,  and  soothes,  heals,  inspires 
and  constructs,  while  the  latter  comes  and  goes  in  straight  or  zigzag  lines  and  cuts,  hurts, 
burns  and  destroys.  Both  forces  are  generated  from  the  electron  and  penetrates  the  atomic 
molecular  and  cellular  realms  and  vitally  affect  the  metabolism  of  all  organized  matter,  or 
the  mists  and  gases  that  compose  these  lower  grade,  concrete  things  termed  material  or 
the  destroyer;  the  magnetic  unites  and  calms,  the  electric  separates  and  disturbs. 


Every  line  of  thought  is  made  up  of  vibration.  Mathematics  itself  is  simply  a  series 
of  lines,  and  by  the  thought  related  and  directly  connected  by  a  formulated  logic.  Every 
avenue  of  knowledge  vibrate  with  electronic  energy. 


PHYSICAL  VIBRATION 

Matter  in  its  last  analysis  does  not  exist,  and  all  life  is  energy  vibrating,  being  repre- 
sented by  motion,  force,  Light  and  Color,  etc.  The  physical  plane  and  emotion,  desire, 
will,  etc.,  are  on  the  mental  and  esoteric  sides  of  human  nature.  Condensed  energy  moves 
in  rotation,  attracting  to  itself  vibrations,  composed  of  electrons,  eons,  atoms  and  molecules. 
What  we  call  matter  is  simply  an  effect  produced  by  low  and  slow  vibrations  and  colors 
on  our  physical  senses.  The  vibrations  in  turn  are  formed  by  electrons,  producing  a  con- 
tinued manifestation  of  energy  that  corresponds  with  the  lower  or  physio-mental  plane. 
Matter  is  therefore  the  low  rate  vibrations,  producing  an  effect  on  our  senses  similar  to 
the  vibrations  on  the  moving  picture  films.  Thought  itself  is  made  up  of  a  continuity  of 
sense  vibrations.  The  same  is  true  of  ideas,  and  words,  and  actions,  which  are  all  simply 
divisions  and  manifestations  of  invisible  vibrations.  These  create  and  form  great  organ- 
izations by  collecting  and  re-collecting  the  forces  of  nature.  Thus  Nature's  mysterious 
artist  plays  on  the  thought  system  of  the  nerves'  centers  which  are  produced  by  the  soul  of 
man.  These,  according  to  their  quality — i.  e.,  their  light  and  colors — form  and  construct 
by  collecting  and  re-collecting  the  thought  forces  of  nature,  are  the  visible  things 
around  us. 


CHAPTER  II 
LIGHT  A  MANIFESTATION  OF  RADIANT  ENERGY 

Professor  J.  J.  Thomas  of  Cambridge,  England,  says:  "Whenever  an  electron  is  sud- 
denly started  or  stopped  or  made  to  turn  a  corner,  it  disturbs  the  ether  through  which  it  has 
been  quietly  moving  and  excites  a  ripple  in  it.  These  ethereal  ripples  constitute  radiation, 
the  best  known  variety  of  them  we  call  light.  With  this  we  have  been  familiar  for  a  long 
time  because  of  our  happening  to  possess  eye  instruments  for  the  ready  application  of 
ethereal  ripples.  We  used  not  to  know  the  reason,  however,  for  the  production  of  light,  but 
we  now  know  that  it  is  due  to  sudden  change  of  motion,  either  in  speed,  or  in  direction,  of 
an  electron,  and  probably  to  no  other  cause." 

HOW  LIGHT  IS  PRODUCED 

"It  may  be  shown  by  spectroscopic  analysis  that  each  of  the  natural  elements  trans- 
mits to  the  ether  a  definite  color  wave.  This  is  due  to  the  definite  rate  of  electronic  atomic 
vibration  of  each  element  which  is  invariable.  Thus  the  light  spectrum  of  carbon  shows 
that  this  element  always  transmits  to  the  other  a  definite  rate  of  vibration,  or  light  wave  of  a 
definite  color,  which  we  have  named  red.  In  other  words  the  spectroscope  proves  that  the 
rate  of  electronic  atomic  vibration  of  carbon  is  the  same  as  the  rate  of  ethereal  vibration  of 
red  light  By  the  same  method  we  may  show  that  the  electronic  atomic  vibration  of  sodium 
corresponds  in  rate  with  that  of  yellow  light;  and  oxygen  with  that  of  violet  light.  In  fact, 
the  spectroscope  shows  that  each  element  has  a  certain  rate  of  atomic  vibration  which  cor- 
responds with  the  rate  of  ethereal  vibration  of  a  light  wave  of  a  definite  color;  and  it  also 
shows  that  the  rates  of  atomic  vibration  of  the  different  elements  are  as  widely  varied  as  the 
rates  of  ethereal  vibration  of  the  different  colors  of  light.  This  is  likewise  shown  to  be  true 
when  the  elements  are  in  chemical  combination  as  well  as  with  inorganic  matter.  Hence, 
we  find  that  the  natural  elements,  or  atomic  groups,  which  make  up  the  cells  of  living  organ- 
isms have  the  same  ratio  of  vibrations  as  the  different  light  waves. 


Light  cannot  lie,  is  never  in  error,  and  is  inflaxible  as  the  laws  of  gravitation  and  of 
truth  itself. 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 21 

SCIENCE,  LIGHT  AND  THE  BIBLE 

Clifton  Harby  Levy  writes:  "What  bearing,  if  any,  upon  the  interpretations  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures  have  the  newest  stupendous  discoveries  of  Professor  Michelson  and  other 
scientists? 

"The  fastest  motion  known  to  the  instruments  of  modern  science  is  the  swiftness  of  a 
ray  of  light  or  the  electric  current — both  travel  at  the  rate  of  186,000  miles  a  second.  The 
circumference  of  the  earth  is  about  24,000  miles.  A  flash  of  light  or  an  electric  spark 
would  travel  around  the  earth  in  about  one-eighth  of  a  second — it  would  encircle  the 
earth  before  you  could  turn  around  to  meet  it. 

"The  most  distant  stars  yet  measured  are  so  far  away  that  it  would  take  a  beam  of 
light  or  an  electric  spark  over  200,000  years  to  travel  from  the  earth  to  them.  If  Heaven 
is  out  beyond  the  stars,  then  it  would  take  over  200,000  years  for  a  soul  to  travel  from 
this  earth  to  its)  future  home  if  it  sped  on  its  tremendous  journey  year  after  year  with  the 
swiftness  of  light. 

"Indeed,  according  to  this  reasoning,  the  soul  of  the  thief  on  the  cross  who  began  his 
journey  two  thousand  years  ago  would  have  really  scarcely  begun  this  almost  inconceiv- 
able journey  of  200,000  years. 

"Does  the  newest  and  unquestioned  discoveries  of  the  astronomers  and  physicists 
prove  that  Heaven,  therefore,  be  beyond  the  starry  firmament?  Not  necessarily. 

"With  all  the  knowledge  with  which  science  has  enriched  us — yes,  how  very  little  it 
all  sums  up  in  comparison  with  the  vastness  of  what  we  do  not  know  and  cannot  under- 
stand! 

"Not  until  the  microscope  was  invented,  a  comparatively  recent  instrument,  did  we 
know  there  were  forms  of  life  so  minute  that  countless  billions  of  these  creatures  could  be 
held  alive  on  the  point  of  a  knife  blade.  Even  within  the  memory  of  this  generation  came 
the  astounding  discovery  of  the  X-ray,  which  has  enabled  us  to  photograph  and  see  things 
hidden  from  view  by  walls  of  wood  and  masonry  and  flesh. 

"These  are  some  of  the  creditable  achievements  of  science.  But  the  beginning  of 
time,  the  beginning  of  the  world,  of  the  secrets  of  life  and  death — science  is  as  ignorant  as 
an  infant.  Around  us  are  a  multitude  of  vital  phenomena  which  we  are  at  present  too 
blind  to  see.  It  is  as  if  a  blindfolded  person  were  led  into  the  silence  of  a  great  motion 
picture  theatre.  Not  until  the  bandage  was  taken  from  his  eyes  would  he  suspect  that  be- 
fore him  were  thousands  of  living,  breathing,  thinking  human  beings,  while  silently  on  the 
screen  a  drama  was  being  enacted. 

"And  so  it  may  be  that  there  are  undiscovered  and  unsuspected  forces  around  us 


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much  more  extraordinary  than  the  things  science  has  so  far  been  able  to  see  and  under- 
stand. Is  it  possible  that  while  light  (ravels  nearly  200,000  miles  a  second,  yet  there  may 
be  motion  which  is  what  mijht  be  called  instantaneous — that  the  human  soul  might  encom- 
pass the  distance  to  the  most  distant  stars  and  beyond  in  an  instant?" 


LET  THERE  BE  LIGHT 

Light.  Beyond  the  violet  ray  is  the  ultra-violet ;  above  that  is  the  X-ray.  Electrons, 
if  charged  600  to  700  watts,  travels  three  and  a  half  times  around  the  world  in  a  second. 

In  the  human  body  there  are  some  electrons  that  could  travel  around  the  world  in 
from  ten  to  twenty  seconds. 

Colors  are  seen  with  the  X-ray  that  are  invisible  to  the  naked  eye.  In  a  recently  in- 
vented X-ray  cabinet,  the  author  enjoyed  the  experience  of  not  only  seeing  these  higher 
ectave  colors  and  hues,  but  of  witnessing  the  dense,  lower-rate  physical  bodies  of  various 
sized  persons,  including  himself,  fade  away.  "The  mists  of  matter,"  as  seen  through  the 
eyes  of  the  higher  lights,  are  filled  and  nothing  but  an  outline  of  the  human  form  remained. 
We  are  surely  on  the  border  land  of  realizing  many  wonderful  discoveries  in  the  just-be- 
yond realm.  There  will  be  additional  experiments  on  the  X-ray  related  in  Vol.  II. 


SILENT  VIBRATIONS 

Silent  vibrations  are  the  most  potent  and  far  reaching,  as  well  as  being  the  quickest 
in  penetrating  power.  In  the  silence  we  are  ab!e  to  concentrate  and  thus  beget  penetra- 
tion, and  enjoy  more  of  life's  forces  which  beget  light.  And  more  light  means  more  love ; 
more  love  means  more  service,  joy  and  peace.  Thus  the  author's  formulae: 

Silence  begets  Concentration. 

Concentration  begets  Penetration. 

Penetration  begets  Life-Power. 

Life-Power  begets  Light. 

Light  begets  Love. 

Love  begets  Service. 

Service  begets  Joy. 

Joy  begets  Peace 

Peace  means  SWEET  SILENT  SUCCESS. 

TRY  and  YOU  CAN. 

Do  not  try  and  YOU  cannot. 


CHAPTER  III 
LIGHT  IS  A  FORCE  AND  VIBRATION 

Light  is  a  material  fluid,  emanating1  from  a  luminous  body,  or  it  is  by  undulations. 
These  are  the  two  great  light  theories. 

White  is  the  harmonizing  of  all  the  vibrations.  True  yellow  is  the  Middle  C  of  our 
human  piano,  which  should  be  attuned  and  kept  clean;  Blue  to  Violet  are  the  great  upper 
Triad  of  Light  and  are  the  great  factors  of  the  love  trinity — Love,  Light,  Life.  This  is  the 
Universal  Triad. 

The  power  of  all  substances  may  be  known  by  their  colors. 


THE  ELEMENTARY  PHYSICS  OF  LIGHT 

Nature  has  but  few  laws  and  they  are  universal  in  their  application. 

Vibration  is  the  primal  law  of  nature,  nothing  being  exempt  from  it. 

In  Cleaves'  "Light  Energy"  is  found  the  following:  "Throughout  space  all  matter  is 
vibrating  from  the  lowest  musical  note  to  the  highest  pitch  of  the  chemical  rays.  The  vari- 
ous manifestations  of  energy  known  as  sound,  heat,  light,  electricity  and  chemical  action, 
are  all  vibrations  of  this  universal,  homogeneous,  incomprehensible  body. 

"These  manifestations  are  recognized  as  such  according  as  they  are  perceived  by  the 
different  nerves,  for  the  mind  of  man  translates  the  impressions  of  the  world  into  facts  of 
consciousness  and  thought  by  means  of  the  nerves  of  the  body.  All  these  varying  rates  of 
vibration,  differing  as  they  do  only  in  direction,  rate  and  frequency,  are  interpreted  accord- 
ing to  the  different  nerves  or  group  of  nerves  physically  attuned  to  them,  or  organized  to 
select  and1  respond  to  especial  manifestations  of  vibratory  activity. 

WHAT  COLOR  IS 

"All  colors  are  in  the  light,  and  they  manifest  themselves  as  one  ov<  another 
according  to  the  object  upon  which  they  fall  To  perceive  color  it  is  essential  that  a  certain 
amount  of  light  fall  upon  the  retina  of  the  eyes." 

Color,  wherever  manifest,  is  simply  vibration,  causing  waves  in  ether.  These  vibra- 
tions may  come  directly  from  any  one  of  the  natural  elements  or  atomic  groups  as  shown 
by  spectral  analysis;  they  may  be  given  out  by  the  atomic  cell  vibration  of  plants  or  flower j 


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caused  by  the  presence  of  one  or  more  of  these  natural  elements  in  the  cells;  or  they  may 
come  from  sunlight,  by  the  segregation  of  the  various  light  waves  known  as  the  cardinal 
colors,  which  are!  different  and  definite  rates  of  vibration;  thus  causing  each  and  every 
color  or  combination  of  colors  from  whatever  source  they  may  emanate. 

"At  the  lowest  degree  of  brightness,  blue  gives  a  color  sensation  with  an  amount  of 
light  sixteen  times  less  than  required  for  red.  Light  of  different  periods  of  vibration  or  fre- 
quency applied  to  the  eye  excites  different  sensations  of  color,  the  amplitude  of  the  vibra- 
tion, height  of  the  wave  or  distance  of  the  swing  of  the  oscillating  corpuscles  from  the 
imaginary  line  called  the  ray,  determine  the  intensity  of  the  impression  of  light  just  as  the 
loudness  of  a  note  depends  upon  the  amplitude  of  the  vibrations  of  the  sounding  body. 
When  all  the  frequencies  (or  vibrations)  fall  simultaneously  on  the  retina,  the  sensation  of 
white  is  experienced/' 

It  seems  incredible  that  one  could  write  the  above  without  taking  the  next  step  and 
recognizing  the  universality  of  the  law  of  vibration  and  its  logical  sequence,  the  law  of 
atomic  cell  vibration. 

NATURE'S  SCALE  OF  VIBRATION 

Nature's  scale  of  vibration  is  very  wide  in  its  extent.  It  commences  with  sound,  then 
merges  into  thermal  heat  waves,  and  these  vibrations  climb  the  vibratory  scale  as  the  tem- 
perature increases,  and  merge  into  the  vibrations  of  the  radiant  heat  waves  in  the  infra-red 
which  reach  up  to  the  visible  red  of  the  light  spectrum. 

The  vibration  of  the  infra-red,  according  to   the   Polytechnic   School  of   Paris,   are 

Visible  red _ 15    trillions 

Orange 20  trillions 

Yellow _ 28   trillions 

Green 35  trillions 

Blue _ _ _ 50   trillions 

Indigo 60   trillions 

while  the  visible  violet  is  spaced  at  75,000,000,000X00  per  second."  Cleaves,  in  "Light 
Energy,"  says:  "The  sensation  of  color,  therefore,  depends  on  the  number  of  vibrations 
of  light  ether,  just  as  the  pitch  of  a  note  depends  on  the  number  of  vibrations  of  the  sound- 
ing body.  The  number  of  vibrations  for  each  color  is  constant. 

These  seven  different  rates  of  vibration  which  we  know  as  co'ors  make  up  the  visible 
light  spectrum.  Beyond  these  are  a  series  of  vibrations  krown  as  the  ultra-violet.  These 
extend  up  to  those  vibrations  designated  as  radio-activity,  of  which  radium  and  the 
x-rays  are  the  best  known  examples.  This  ends  both  the  light  spectrum  and  nature's  vibra- 
tory scale  as  far  as  present  knowledge  goes. 


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MOUTH  AND  THROAT  VIBRATIONS 

Although  the  positive  actions  of  mastication  and  deglutition  are  important,  we  should 
never  overlook  the  fact  that  the  alternating  functions  of  smiling  and  relaxing  are  invaluable 
to  health .  Begin  the  day  with  a  laugh,  end  the  day  with  a  yawn  and  then  relax  and  sleep. 


REPRODUCTIVE  VIBRATIONS 

The  New  Year  of  Spring  time  is  symbolic  of  the  divine  spiritual  spring  time  of  the  soul 
of  man  as  well  as  the  soul  of  all  nature. 

Spring  time  represents  a  renewal  of  all  audible  and  observable,  as  well  as  the  wireless 
and  invisible  vibrations  and  colors  of  the  evolving  and  revolving  realms  of  the  universe. 

Reproductive  vibrations  radiate  with  their  respective  octaves  of  colors  and  hues  of 
every  kingdom  in  our  terrestial  realm,  as  of  all  the  spheres  of  the  celestial  universe. 

In  Vol.  II,  reproductive  vibrations,  with  their  colors  and  meanings,  will  be  treated  from 
different  angles  of  the  great  perspective  of  Sex-Conception  and  constructive  unfoldment 
and  development. 


THE  MASTER  KEYS  FOR  MASTER  MINDS 

Now  let  us  think  and  understand  what  we  mean  by  vibrations  of  Light  and  Colors, 
and  why  knowledge  and  wisdom  give  us  the  black  and  white  musical  keys,  by  which 
we  can  play  on  the  human  piano,  and  which,  when  understood,  we  can  unlock  the  sealed 
doors  of  the  Universe  with  the  master  keys. 

Light  is  represented  by  rates  of  vibrations ;  these  may  be  visible  both  to  the  physical 
and  to  the  inner  senses  of  the  mental,  astral  and  spiritual.  If  on  the  physical,  we  cognize 
with  the  outer  senses  of  manifestation.  If  by  the  mental  by  the  LIGHT  OF  REASON. 
The  lower  grade  of  thinking  is  represented  by  the  lower  colors  of  light. 

Then  there  is  the  astral  or  ethereal  Lights  and  Colors — the  occult  Lights  and  Colors — 
and  these  are  seen  clearly  by  the  clear  sighted,  those  inheriting  or  developing  an  enlarged 
v;sion,  sometimes  termed  the  Perceptive  or  Third  Eye  Sight.  The  pure  White  Light 
is  the  balance  of  the  spiritual  colors,  which  are  made  manifest  through  the  mental  and 
physical  senses — the  mediums  of  expression  for  the  spiritual  magnetism  of  the  God's 
image  man 

The  subject  is  too  great  and  the  time  too  limited  here  to  more  than  touch  on  some  of 
the  practical  uses  of  Light  and  Color  for  regulating  the  health  of  human  beings. 


CHAPTER  IV 
SPIRITUAL  MAGNETIC  WAVES 

In  our  usual  way  of  thinking,  we  refer  to  three  classes  of  vibrations — the  material,  the 
mental  and  the  spiritual — but  in  the  realm  of  reality  there  is  but  one  kind,  and  that  is  the 
spiritual,  which  is  so  marvelously  manifested  through  the  life-giving,  constructive  Magnetic 
waves.  These  invisible  vibrations  are  of  the  highest  rating  and  potency,  are  the  most 
attractive,  soothing,  charming  and  strengthening. 

The  Magnetic  wave  creates,  while  the  electric  current  tears  and  cuts,  burns  and  de- 
stroys, and  yet  in  evolutionary  progress  the  two  are  necessary.  In  metabolism  these  two 
forces  are  indispensable.  One  is  the  new  house  builder,  the  new  body  constructor,  the  new 
ideal  creator.  The  other  is  the  old  house  wrecker,  the  older  body  destructor,  the  older 
ideal  displacer. 


BREATHING  VIBRATIONS 

The  author's  recent  book  on  "Breath  Power;  or  The  Breath  of  Life,"  gives  important 
data  and  lesson  exercises  on  this  very  vital  subject. 


WHITE  CONSCIOUSNESS 

The  white  light  of  being,  of  beings  and  of  thought  refers  to  the  vibrations  being  under 
a  perfectly  even  or  true  control.  It  is  the  Milky  Way  of  our  Universe,  the  "Light  of 
Heaven,"  "the  Great  White  Throne,"  the  emblem  of  purity,  angels,  and  the  highest  form  of 
love  as  well;  the  day,  truth  and  glory  are  represented  by  white.  "Let  your  light  so 
shine"  refers  to  the  white  intelligence  of  a  clean,  pure,  loving  mind  vibrating  on  the  altar 
in  the  human  temple,  associated  with  the  spiritual  life  generating  from  on  high. 

It  is  the  "at-one-ment"  unity  symbol.  It  is  the  middle  key  of  the  music  of  the  spheres 
and  the  harmonizer  of  all  inharmonies 


Mathematics  is  formulated  logic,  and  logic  is  formed  by  geometrical  and  algebraic 
thought  vibrations  of  electrons. 


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FRIENDLY  HAND-SHAKE  VIBRATIONS 

(Words  written  impromptu  by  Dr.  Harold  Palmer,  the  psychometrist  and  lecturer,  at 
farewell  luncheon  and  handed  to  the  author  to  give  to  a  mutual  friend.) 

Hand  clasp! 
Not  a  flabby,  lappy, 
Sappy  kind  of  thing 
Like  dead  fish  slipping 

Through  a  ring; 
But  a  warm  hand  clasp, 
That  lingers  still 
And  gives  that  joyful  thrill 
Of  soul-power  true. 
Oh,  noble  girl, 
Such  is  the  hand  shake  of  you. 


THE  SUN'S  BEAUTY  SHOP 

SUNSHINE  produces  soulshine,  and  soulshine  produces  a  sunny  disposition,  and  a 
sunny  disposition  in  turn  produces  a  splendid  personality,  and  a  splendid  personality  pro- 
duces success,  radiating  sun-colors  in  health,  happiness  and  a  complexion  as  beautiful 
and!  as  deep  as  the  soul  center. 


MENTAL  AND  MORAL  EFFECTS  OF  LIGHT 

The  good  effect  of  light  upon  the  mental  as  well  as  on  the  moral  condition  of  the 
person,  explains  the  reason  why  certain  individuals  desire  certain  colors,  whether  it  be 
in  choice  of  fruits  and  vegetables  or  their  choice  and  mode  of  wearing  apparel  all  of  which 
come  from  the  sunrays.  One  person  longs  for  a  particular  color,  while  another  is  oppositely 
affected.  It  would  require  a  lengthy  article  to  cover  the  important  uses  of  colors  for  the 
moods  or  modes  and  health  of  the  human  body  and  mind. 

The  sun's  light  and  color  treatments  may  readily  be  applied  daily  or  weekly, 
from  the  standpoint  of  ordinary  cleanliness  and  natural  stimulation  and  comfort,  by  the 
use  of  the  Electric  Light  Bath  Cabinets  and  the  Radiant  Applicators,  which  are  modern, 
scientific,  always  beneficial  and  may  be  attached  to  any  electric  light  socket. 


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EXERCISE— BOTTLED  SUNSHINE— AND  COLORS 

Sunlight  and  exercise  are  Nature's  great  healers — and  preventative  of  disease.  Dead 
tissues,  as  well  as  poisonous  secretions,  are,  with  the  help  of  the  sun,  thrown  off;  and 
new  and  healing  tissues  take  up  the  work  of  re-energizing.  Exercise  and  sunlight  are 
both  difficult  to  obtain  in  sufficient  quantity,  under  our  modern  "civilized"  conditions, 
to  secure  the  required  elimination.  The  failure  to  perspire  is  one  of  the  fundamental  causes 
of  diseases  of  our  modern  life. 

To  run  our  human  automobile,  and  secure  sufficient  human  energy,  a  proper  appli- 
cation of  sunlight  is  necessary.  This  radiant  light  should  be  applied,  preferably  to  the 
uncovered  skin.  When  we  cannot,  on  account  of  our  social  training  or  climatic  condi- 
tions, come  in  contact  with  the  sun's  direct  rays,  the  bottled  sunshine  (the  chemical 
analysis  being  the  same),  will  prove  quite  as  beneficial.  Electric  lamp  bulbs  are  used. 
These  permit  the  spectrum  rays  to  penetrate,  thus  securing  the  therapeutic  value  of  both 
the  radiant  light  and  the  colors. 

We  all  know  that  sunlight  is  the  greatest  "germ-destroyer"  and  the  greatest  "puri- 
fier," as  well  as  being  the  source  of  warmth  and  healing  power.  Sunlight  not  only  opens 
the  pores  of  the  body  in  order  to  cleanse  the  blood  and  lighten  the  heart  it  pulses  through, 
but  stimulates  and  strengthens  the  mind  and  dissipates  the  depressing  "blues"  and  "greys," 
thus  giving  way  to  wholesomeness  and  purity. 


OUR  SOLAR  SYSTEM  CHEMIST. 

Our  sun,  is  a  mighty  chemist,  producing  seven  great  classes  of  life-giving  rays  for  its 
sevenfold  creation  on  our  planet.  In  Vol.  1  the  author  is  treating  principally  on  that  class 
we  term  color  and  its  seven  divisions  and  their  uses  for  the  health  and  harmony  of  the 
Creative  Sun,  which  in  turn  was  created  by  the  Sun  of  the  Universe. 

In  other  words  we  have  a  celestial  materia  medic  a  for  the  use  of  our  terrestrial  sun- 
souls  which  become,  when  rightly  supplied  with  sun-food,  sunny  souls.  The  sunless  por- 
tions of  a  planet  are  barren  of  any  form  of  great  fife,  more  life  in  the  temperate  zones  and 
by  far  the  greatest  in  size,  variety,  beauty  and  soul  greatness.  The  greatest  majority  of 
famous  men  and  women  and  the  world's  great  Saviors,  Masters,  Christs  and  Prophets  come 
from  Southern  climes;  the  same  is  true  of  the  women  termed  "Southern  Beauties."  The 
majority  of  the  world's  famous  poets  and  songsters  come  from  the  southern  countries  and 
the  lower  temperate  divisions  of  the  earth. 

When  the  sun  shines  there  is  more  magnetism  or  color  principle  to  sweeten  the  fruit 


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of  the  land.    The  same  is  true  of  dispositions.    Light,  warmth  of  nature,  is  the  secret  of 
Southern  hospitality  and  generosity  of  soul. 

The  Sun  sets  a  perfect  example  of  what  we  should,  as  little  suns,  accomplish;  but 
this  is  aj  mighty  subject  and  shall  only  touch  on  a  few  of  the  sun's  manifestations  and 
expressions  of  life  and  love,  and  in  succeeding  volumes  the  student  of  the  Solar  Univers- 
ity School  of  Vibration  may  secure  more  truth,  more  knowledge,  and  more  power  and 
life. 

Light  has  indeed  a  flashlight  consciousness,  for  it  can  travel  around  the  earth  in 
waves  seven  times  a  second. 


HEALING  BY  VIBRATION;  OR,  THE  LAW  OF  LIGHT  AND  COLOR  THERAPEUTICS 

The  law  of  electrons,  atoms  and  elements  is  vibration. 

The  law  of  Light  and  Colors,  as  well  as  of  sound,  scent  and  organs  is  vibrations. 

The  law  of  life  and  love,  emotions  and  passions  and  all  things  that  are  is  vibration. 

The  law  of  thought  and  word  is  vibration. 

In  fact  it  is  the  law  of  the  universe,  both  visible  and  invisible. 

The  White  Light  of  Intelligence  and  the  white  Light  of  the  normal  physio-mental  man 
is  the  same.  Light  is  light;  all  the  seven  colors  balance  evenly,  and  a  normal  person  is 
keyed  a  middle  C  and  in  tune  with  Nature. 


THE  MEASURE  OF  COLOR  IN  HEALTH  AND  DISEASE. 

COLOR  is  the  measure  of  "error"  (low  rating)  or  dis-ease  (lack  of  ease),  the  indi- 
cator of  inharmony.  Pure  colors  are  the  great  healing  agencies  in  Nature  and  the  dispensers 
of  force.  White  is  the  balancing  mainspring  with  which  all  electronic  force  is  represented. 
White  is  the  equatorial  balancer  of  all  planets  and  organizations,  from  the  minute  world  of 
the  atom  to  the  mightiest  planet. 

Every  disease  has  a  corresponding  vibration  in  color,  and  by  mating  with  a  comple- 
mentary higher  rate  color  vibration,  congestion  is  relieved  and  eliminated  and  new  cells 
gradually  replace  the  "old"  ones.  By  right  thinking  vibrations  the  higher,  healthier  forma- 
tion for  molding  new  thought  cells  is  continually  in  progress.  Thus  we  consciously  at  first, 
then  subconsciously,  are  the  creators  of  a  more  perfect  physical  body  or  house  for  the 
inhabitance  and  enjoyment  of  our  higher  rating  self — our  spiritual  soul. 


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TWELVE  HEALTH  VIBRATION  RULES 

I.  Avoid  intemperance  in  everything — eating,  drinking,  working,  playing  and  con- 
scious thinking. 

2,.  Avoid  extreme  combinations  in  food  (for  such  errors  produce  inharmonious  rela- 
tions), starches  and  acids,  starches  and  sweets. 

3.  Thoroughly  masticate  your  food,  especially  the  starchy  and  sweets. 

4.  Eat  only  when  hungry  and  comfortable. 

5.  From  several  ounces  to  a  pound  of  more  or  less  solid  food  is  sufficient  for  anyone. 

6.  Breathe  naturally  plenty  of  fresh  air.    If  suffering  with  any  respiratory  trouble, 
even  with  the  so-called  "Only  a  Cold"  (low  rate  vibration),  breathe  in  Nature's  pure,  heal- 
ing balsamized  air,  and  for  constitutional  treatment  an  electric  light  ("Bottled  Sunlight") 
bath  should  be  used. 

7.  Enjoy  the  soul-inspiring  and  body-purifying  sun  rays,  directly  on  the  nude  body 
when  possible,  and  dress  with  light  in  weight  and  color  garments,  avoiding  all  that  retards 
the  light  waves,  which  express  "Service." 

8.  Generously  partake  of  fresh  fruits  and  green  vegetables. 

9.  Keep  all  the  passages  of  the  human  machine  clear  and  clean,  then  the  master 
organist,  Nature,  will  take  care  of  and  play  on  the  vital  organs  the  music  of  health  and 
harmony. 

10.  Be  kind  to  your  kidneys  and  colon  by  exercising  and  perspiring,  so  that  poisons 
(low  rate  vibrations)  can  escape  through  the  myriads  of  eliminating  channels  of  the  body's 
surface — the  pores  of  the  skin. 

II.  Sleep  regardless  of  the  number  of  hours,  till  you  are  naturally  rested. 

12.  Keep  your  activity  optimistic,  enjoying  troubles  and  other  problems,  which  con- 
structively work  for  the  upward  path  of  progress.  Keep  the  mind  fresh  and  strong  by 
ever  cultivating  inspirational  thoughts  to  build  new  body  cells  which  will  respond  to  all  the 
musical  vibrations  of  youthfulness  and  joy  on  the  human  chords  of  harmony. 


Mathematics,  it  is  said,  is  dried  music.    Is  not  music  liquid  vibrations  of  a  harmoni- 
ous nature? 


CHAPTER  V 

COLOR  PSYCHOLOGY  AND  PSYCHO-THERAPY. 

PERSONALITY,  HEALTH  AND  COLOR.  For  real  attractiveness  and  beauty,  that 
which  is  deep  and  lasting,  we  must  learn  first  to  find  our  real,  creative  selves  and  thus  know 
the  secrets  of  the  fountain  of  Youth,  Health  and  Beauty,  which  is  ever  fresh  and  flowing 
onward,  refreshing  and  renewing  the  beauty  life  stream  of  a  charming  personality. 

This  knowledge  is  'immeasurably  superior  to  the  very  best  that  is  practiced  in  the 
fashionable  and  tempting  repair  shops  known  as  "beauty  parlors,"  etc. 

Where,  excepting  for  the  excellent  hair  and  scalp  work,  the  process  of  patching  up 
with  mixtures  of  paint  and  powder  (and  which  example  is  also  followed  out  by  the  indi- 
vidual at  home  or  otherwise)  containing  her  general  "face  make-up"  the  Vanity  Box  is 
notorious,  and  for  why?  To  temporarily,  yes,  just  from  day  to  day  or  hour  to  hour  patch 
up,  to  cover  or  gloss  and  powder  over  the  low  rating,  low  coloring,  and  even  coarse  grained 
accumulated  imperfections  of  a  skin  which  from  ignorance  (low  and  slow  vibration)!  has 
been  neglected. 

Nature's  Beauty  Shop  is  within  the  mind  and  soul,  and  its  signs  are  hung  on  the  facia) 
expressions  and  the  quality  is  found  on  a  natural  colored  complexion,  which  is  an  integral 
part  of  an  attractive  personality,  vibrating  with  a  healthy  magnetism. 

In  order  to  raise  one's  personality  away  above  the  ordinary  person,  that  becomes  more 
ordinary  all  the  time — and  to  increase  the  power  and  influence  of  the  individual — the  time 
has  arrived  for  all  psychology  students,  instructors  and  healers  to  make  a  real  study 
of  the  seven  octaves  of  Light  and  Color,  with  their  marvelous  hues  and  varied  tints  and 
shades  and  forms,  not  overlooking  the  sound  and  music  coloring. 


The  Astral  Light  keeps  an  unmutilated  record  of  all  that  was,  that  is,  or  ever  will  be. 
The  minutest  acts  of  our  lives  are  imprinted  on  it,  and  even  our  thoughts  rest  photographed 
on  its  eternal  tablet. — "Isis  Unveiled." 


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COLORS  AND  MORALS 

Municipal  Judge  Ma  honey  of  Chicago  made  a  statement  on  the  13th  day  of  August, 
1913,  which  was  immediately  telegraphed  all  over  America  and  soon  appeared  in  a  great 
many  newspapers  all  over  the  country,  to  the  effect  that  light  colors  tend  toward  godliness 
and  dark  colors  to  promote  crime.  That  our  readers  everywhere  may  have  this  learned  and 
kindly  gentleman's  exact  words  for  reference  in  this  volume,  we  quote  the  following,  which 
appeared  without  change  in  more  newspapers  than  we  would  try  to  count: 

"Brightness  leads  to  right  thinking/'  said  Judge  Mahoney.  "Darkness  and  uncleanliness 
lead  to  crooked  thinking.  This  is  an  axiom  as  old  as  the  Bible.  I  am  glad  to  see  so  many 
white  buildings  going  up  in  Chicago.  They  reflect  the  light  and  have  a  stronger  psychologi- 
cal effect  on  the  population  than  is  usually  imagined.  The  smoke  nuisance  which  covers  the 
building  with  dark  soot  is  an  aid  to  crime." 

In  accordance  with  this  belief,  Judge  Mahoney  is  having  the  South  Clark  Street  Court, 
in  which  he  presides,  redecorated.  The  walls  are  being  changed  from  a  sombre  hue  to  a 
light  cream  color. 

"This  is  an  uplift  court,"  he  said,  "and  we  must  have  the  walls  to  correspond.  It  is 
enough  to  turn  a  good  man  into  a  criminal  to  have  to  sit  day  after  day  in  a  place  like  this. 
I  was  about  ready  to  hold  court  in  the  street  unless  I  could  brighten  things  up  a  little." 

"White,  cream,  light  yellow,  and  orange  are  the  colors  which  are  the  sanest.  I  might 
add,  light  green,  for  that  is  the  predominating  color  in  Nature.  Black,  brown  and  deep  red 
are  incentives  to  crime.  A  man  in  anger  sees  red.  Despondency  causes  blueness  of  feeling. 
The  same  comparisons  might  be  carried  through  all  of  the  shades  of  the  spectrum.  I  would 
make  it  a  law  to  force  all  owners  of  buildings  to  paint  them  a  light  color." 

The  author  is  a  charter  member  of  a  literary  society  which,  during  the  years  1919-20, 
held  weekly  meetings  in  the  "Red  Room"  of  a  prominent  hotel  in  San  Francisco.  Occa- 
sionally they  met  in  the  "Gold  Room"  in  the  same  hotel.  The  influence  of  the  vibrations  or 
the  irritating  color  of  red,  when  meeting  in  the  "Red  Room,"  on  the  nerves  and  minds  oi 
those  present  was  increasingly  noticeable — especially  on  those  who  took  active  part.  On 
the  other  hand  it  seemed  a  remarkable  fact  the  "Gold  Room"  without  exception  produced  a 
harmonizing  atmosphere.  The  club  has  since  moved  to  a  new  meeting  place  in  conjunction 
with  the  Over  Seas  Club  rooms,  which,  with  its  subdued  color  scheme  and  congenial  atmos- 
phere, has  not  in  several  months'  time,  experienced  the  reddish  outbursts  of  an  over-stimu- 
lated condition  of  the  blood  and  brain  of  its  members. 


The  safe  and  exquisite  potency  of  co'or  and  music  is  indeed  remarkable. 


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EMOTIONAL  REMINDERS 

While  a  student  at  a  theological  college  and  at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  the 
author  used  to  make  the  most  important  notes  with  a  red  pencil  or  red  ink.  This  is  true 
even  with  my  Bible.  Those  were  days  of  fear.  I  now  prefer  to  make  my  notes  with  blue, 
or  at  least  orange.  Harry  Gaze  tells  a  story  of  two  men,  one  of  whom  did  not  enjoy  a 
high  grade  of  love,  who  marked  his  Bible  up  with  red,  while  the  other  man,  with  a  true 
love  nature,  marked  his  Bible  with  blue. 


PSYCHOLOGY  OF  COLOR 

Black  is  repressing,  depressing  and  suppressing.  Black  represents  the  negative  con- 
ditions of  gloom,  fear,  error  or  dis-ease,  ignorance,  pessimism  and  hopelessness. 

Black  should  not  be  worn  as  a  funeral  reminder  of  the  orthodox  sort  The  Christs 
and  Saviors  of  the  world  did  not,  so  far  as  we  know,  set  the  example  of  wearing  black, 
but  we  have  good  reasons  to  believe  that  they,  with  the  saints,  were  robed  in  white,  as  are 
the  angels,  according  to  the  Scriptures.  Referring  to  evil  men,  the  Scriptures  state  that 
men  love  darkness  better  than  light,  because  their  deeds  are  evil 

Pure  WHITE  LIGHT  is  unity  and  harmony  (love),  which  is  the  nature  of  God. 
Love  belongs  to  the  true  life  of  man  and  woman.  It  is  in  fact  the  very  essence  of  a 
balance  of  life  and  keeps  us  from  fearing,  failing  and  falling.  The  White  Light  conscious- 
ness is  the  mighty  searchlight  to  direct  our  souls  into  the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  within. 
The  White  Light  is  the  inclusive,  synthetic  octave  of  things. 

No  color,  if  color  it  is,  is  more  demoralizing,  or  at  least  disheartening,  than  black,  if  it 
is  not  counteracted  by  "a  dash"  or  "flash"  of  a  brightening  color.  It  depresses  the  morale 
and  spirits  of  those  directly  and  indirectly  influenced  by  wearing  black,  for  it  speaks  of 
dark  thoughts;  i.  e.,  negative,  dead  things,  while  white  is  affirmative,  positive  and  spiritu- 
ally hopeful  in  its  symbolic  effect  upon  the  senses,  while  purple  and  violet  are  soothing 
and  reposeful,  and  gray  is  suggestive  of  the  vision  of  a  new  hope  and  understanding  dawn- 
ing upon  the  bereaved  and  disconsolate. 

"Among  the  Hindus,  Mohammedans,  Parsees  and  Turks,  black  is  associated  with 
everything  material,  negative,  dark,  evil,  hopeless,  destructive  and  lifeless,  that  it  seems 
to  defeat  the  belief  in  the  doctrine  of  the  resurrection  of  a  future  life,  which  death  fore- 
casts, and  therefore  these  Oriental  nations,  with  subtle  understanding  of  the  significance  of 
color  and  effects  and  of  its  psychology  on  human  lives,  have  ruled  through  centuries  of  reli- 
gious usage  and  customs  other  colors  to  be  used  for  the  mourning  habit.  It  is  a  well 
known  fact  that  our  custom  of  wearing  black  for  mourning  was  borrowed  originally  from 


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the  Romans,  as  they,  in  their  turn,  received  the  custom  from  the  Greeks.  White  was  con- 
spicuously worn  by  the  Roman  women  for  one  year.  For  instance,  while  the  Turks  and 
Moslems  wear  violet,  the  Chinese  wear  white,  and  these  colors  are  to  be  preferred  to 
black." 

WHITE  is  the  Star  of  Hope  and  Assurance,  which  typifies  and  sees  cleanliness,  godli- 
ness, glory,  angels,  and  symbolizes  the  "Great  White  Throne"  of  kingship  and  queenly 
glory  and  power.  It  is  the  Polar  or  polarization  Star.  White  is  the  morning  star  of  the 
awakening,  and  the  evening  star  to  guide  our  steps  out  of  a  dark  cloud  or  a  night  of  dark 
despair. 

Black  is  the  language  of  ignorance,  congestion  and  what  is  termed  "wickedness." 

WHITE  is  the  language  of  knowledge,  expression  and  spirituality. 

The  psychological  effect  of  black,  like  the  murky  red  and  dusky  brown,  is  repulsive 
to  evolving,  unfolding,  developing  students  of  the  higher,  brighter  and  purer  life. 

Out  of  the  dark-gray  mists  of  the  ''dark  ages"  our  eyes  of  perception  discern  the  light 
of  spiritual  consciousness  which  will  direct  us  to  the  higher  and  higher  and  still  higher 
realms  of  life  and  service.  This  spirit  lamp  is  the  Sun  in  man  made  in  His  likeness — "The 
Son  (or  Sun)  of  Man." 


COLOR— SOURCES  OF  INFORMATION  AND  PERSONALITY 

When  a  painter,  a  designer  or  a  sculptor  desires  to  quicken  his  aspirations,  or  a  Parisian 
dressmaker  or  London  ladies'  tailor  craves  new  form  and  color  schemes,  they  seek  them  from 
nature's  color  storehouse,  which  stimulates  the  imagination  and  enhances  their  taste  in  form, 
color  and  beauty.  Because  of  their  advancement  in  the  knowledge  of  color  and  form,  and 
of  their  musical  environment,  the  civilization  of  the  Circassians,  Persians  and  Greeks  were 
developed  to  a  remarkable  degree  along  the  lines  of  symmetry,  as  well  as  their  taste  in 
beautiful  forms  and  thought  chiseled  faces  and  for  attractive,  delicately  shaded  color 
fabrics  and  flowing  garments. 

Color,  like  Form,  may  become  a  negative  or  a  positive  force,  an  enemy  or  a  friend  to  a 
personality,  an  attractive  or  a  distracting  ray,  a  constructive  or  a  destructive,  a  depressing 
and  repressing  or  an  expressing,  developing  influence  in  our  personality,  as  well  as  an  aid 
in  increasing  our  individuality.  Color  may  raise  our  consciousness  and  spirit  or  depress 
our  mind  and  soul,  and  thus  retard  our  progress  and  happiness. 

Colors  have  a  tremendous  influence  on  maintaining  health  and  harmony.  The  primary 
colors  of  the  physical  body  are  well  recognized,  and  how  quickly  we  realize  being  below 


LIGHT   AND   COLORS 35 

par  when  our  system  lacks  any  of  the  spectrum  rays.  The  student  or  reader  will  recall 
the  fact  that  all  first-class  manikins  and  charts  of  the  physical  organs  are  painted  with  red, 
yellow  and  blue,  thus  representing  the  seven  colors  of  sunlight  within  a  healthy  person. 
If  these  colors  are  deflected,  the  laws  of  nature  demand  a  renewal  of  this  life  representing 
form  of  vital  nourishment  and  tonic.  If  we  lack  the  higher  hue  of  red  we  are  anemic,  or 
have  malaria  or  jaundice,  and  if  too  much  of  a  murky  or  low-rating  (heavy)  red,  a  physi- 
cal and  mental  "dis-ease,"  i.  e.,  a  congestion  has  "set  in"  and  a  series  of  mental  inharmonies 
will,  as  usual,  follow  physical  irregularities,  which,  after  crossing  the  physio-mental  bridge, 
cause  irritation  and  feeling  "up  set",  "unstrung",  "stupid",  "horrid",  "dense",  "cloudy", 
"badly";  or,  if  rating  on  a  darker,  slower  vibration  and  coloring,  one  feels  "bad",  "nasty", 
and  "mean"  (all  relative  terms),  a  Little  fussy,  or  angry  and  hateful,  and  loss  of  mental 
control,  etc. 

In  the  Far  East  and  in  Southern  Europe,  the  child  is  experimented  upon  by  the  par- 
ents with  colors  to  learn  the  corresponding  adaptable  color  hues  most  harmonious  to  the 
child's  mental  and  physical  requirements,  and  that  which  most  calms  and  vitalizes,  is 
wrapped  about  it  and  placed  around  the  room.  An  irritated  child  is  soothed  into  good  tem- 
per by  the  presence  of  its  dominant  color.  Mme.  Courlandon  of  Paris,  an  authority  on 
color  harmony,  writes  as  follows: 

"Colors  are  like  persons.  They  put  us  at  our  best  or  they  do  not.  They  are  like  food, 
they  agree  or  disagree  with  us.  RED  is  a  disturbing  hue;  so  is  yellow  in  a  lesser  degree. 
Explain  it  or  not,  the  truth  is  these  colors  speak  of  conflict,  of  terror,  of  fire,  of  cataclysms. 
RED  colors  roar.  BLUE  (Sight  blue)  is  restful.  GREEN  is  a  nearly  universal  friend. 
BLACK  has  the  effect  of  weight.  WHITE  is  a  universal  friend.  PURPLES  (to  some) 
are  color  irritants  and  ORANGE  partakes  of  this  quality.  PINK  is  friendly.  I  must  tell 
you  of  an  instance  of  the  influence  of  color.  I  paid  a  visit  to  a  patient  in  a  sanitarium  in 
Kingston,  New  York,  where  they  treat  nervous  and  mental  diseases.  I  was  sent  for  to 
treat  by  color  a  patient  who  wore  a  light  blue  suit,  a  sapphire  blue  necktie.  I  induced  him 
to  let  me  substitute  a  bouquet  of  soft  roses  for  his  bureau  and  supply  a  pink  cushion;  the 
effect  was  like  magic." 

Applied  psychologists  and  students  of  nature  know  that  everyone  has  a  favorite  color, 
a  color  chord,  as  well  as  a  color  aura.  We  are  affected  vitally  by  color  foods  which  nour- 
ish the  body  and  mind. 


The  gentle  flower  of  sweet  sympathy  and  strong  sunflower  of  optimism  grow  on  the 
the  banks  of  the  river  of  life  in  our  garden  of  Eden  within  the  soul. 


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STAR  LIGHT  AND  COLORS 

Star  light,  like  our  sun  light,  shows  through  the  prism  the  different  waves  of  colors. 
Some  stars  vibrate  different  colors  and  from  different  angles.  The  colors  depend  upon 
the  intensity  due  to  their  temperature. 


STARLIGHT  COLORS 

The  author  has  experimented  from  night  to  night  with  high  grade  imported  prisms — 
star  light  photographing,  by  means  of  these  instruments,  in  the  clear  California  atmos- 
phere, from  the  highest  point  of  Mount  Diablo  and  the  Yosemite's  High  Sierras  and  on 
the  Pacific  Coast  Range  of  mountains.  It  was  most  interesting,  in  fact  extremely  fascinat- 
ing, to  focus  on  a  special  star  and  note  the  spectrum  colors  radiating  earthward  in  the 
form  of  a  lengthy  comet — different  stars  varying  in  their  colors  and  color  luster  as  well  as 
their  size  and  length  of  radiation.  Those  who  have  viewed  the  "Glories  of  the  Heavens" 
by  a  visit  to  the  Lick  Observatories  on  Mt.  Hamilton,  in  Central  California,  or  those  in 
Southern  California  at  Mt.  Wilson  or  Mt.  Lowe,  remember  the  glorious  rings  around  Sat- 
urn and  the  belts  in  connection  with  Jupiter.  These,  when  more  closely  observed  with 
prism  analysis,  appear  more  gorgeous.  And  the  same  intensity  of  interest  is  experienced 
by  the  student  in  studying  the  human  auras  and  miniature  suns  within  the  human  solar- 
plexus  system.  What  is  true  of  the  mighty  planets  above  is  true  of  the  marvelous  creation 
called  man,  who  is  a  little  world  dotted  with  stars  and  sun  centers.  "As  above  so  below/' 
and  will  add,  as  without  so  within. 

These  human  solar  systems  of  color  are  elucidated  further  in  Vol.  II  on  The  Human 
Planet  and  Soul  Forces. 


WOMAN'S  RADIANCE 

The  glorious  radiance  of  a  woman's  soul  is  marred  by  the  wearing  of  much  flashy 
jewelry.  The  soul's  "heart  of  diamonds"  represents  purity,  simplicity,  modesty  and 
strength. 


Knowledge,  like  emotions,  unexpressed-spells  suppression,  which  with  repression  reads- 
congestion,  meaning  disease  (lack  of  ease,  low  and  s.'ow  vibration)  in  the  language  of 
human  life  therefore,  not  to  express  one's  self  means  ignorance  plus  darkness  and  not  us- 
ing we  are  losing  the  brightest  half  of  our  life. 


CHAPTER  VI 


THERAPEUTIC  BREATHING  COLOR  VIBRATIONS 

These  illustrations,  show  recent  inventions  for  purifying  the  air  we  breathe  in  and 
raising  the  color  vibrations  of  the  blood,  for  the  purpose  of  eliminating  what  is  known  as 
dis-ease,  error  and  inharmony  within  the  human  system,  particularly  in  relation  to  the 
head,  throat  and  lungs.  This  Nebulizer  is  constructed  so  that  air  is  drawn  from  a  hand- 
bulb  or  a  foot  pump  into  the  globe,  which  contains  healing,  protecting  and  strengthening 
colors  in  the  form  of  balsams,  including  balm  of  Gilead  (extracted  from  the  buds),  kuro- 
monji,  Scotch  pine  oil  from  the  leaves,  oil  of  cassia  and  Australian  eucalyptus  (with  a  60 
to  80  per  cent  eucalyptol).  These  are  among  Nature's  highest  and  best  healing  agents  in 
the  vegetable  realm.  Inhalation  is  the  most  natural  method  of  receiving  the  visible  and 
invisible  color  forces  of  the  atmosphere,  in  the  form  of  balsamized  or  purified  air  for  res- 
piratory and  associated  troubles. 


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RELATIVITY  OF  DIS-EASE,  EASE  AND  COLORS 

Just  as  good  and  evil  are  relative,  so  are  colors  related.  The  evil  is  "low,"  or  rather 
a  slow  form  of  vibration  and  may  be  considered  stagnant  and  of  the  dark  or  dirt-y  type 
(of  earth  rating),  so  we  have  the  lowest  electronic  motions  in  murky  red  down  to  black,  as 
seen  by  the  physical  eyes. 

When  we  are  evolved;  to  a  high  state  of  consciousness,  or  arrive  at  the  plane  of  a 
Heavenly  white,  or  spiritual  consciousness,  we  are  functioning  with  the  Godly  or  good 
forces  that  level  all  rates  of  the  seven  colors  into  that  which  we  term  white.  The  spiritual 
and  mental  and  the  so-called  material  rates  of  vibration  will  be  further  elucidated  in  vol- 
ume II  of  "Color  and  Light,  Etc."  In  the  "interval  of  time"  remember  that  the  Buddha 
said  that  ignorance  was  the  cause  of  all  our  troubles,  and  Krishna  and  Jesus  the  Christ  and 
others  of  the  high  plane  of  love,  came  to  en-lighten  the  world. 


HOW  NATURE  COLORS  THE  CHEEKS 

Nature  applies  her  colors  from  within  and  not  just  on  the  outside.  It  is  the  coloring 
vibrations,  emanating  from  the  blood,  that  makes  a  good  complexion.  No  one  can  possess 
a  clear,!  clean,  healthy  skin  if  the  blood  is  impure — i.  e.,  murky  or  low  rating  colors — with 
consequent  lack  of  vitality.  Auto-intoxication  from  lack  of  elimination  causes  the  blood 
to  become  impoverished  and  forces  an  unfair  amount  of  work  on  the  kidneys  and  lungs. 
Closing  up  the  mouths  and  passages  in  the  skin,  by  lack  of  the  sun  or  strong  light-opening 
process,  will  prove  the  death  blow  to  a  beautiful  skin.  Cosmetics;,  paints  and  powders  are 
only  an  excuse  and  a  temporary  apology  to  the  natural  complexion.  In  reality,  the  skin 
is  greatly  mistreated,  and  the  cleansing  and  color  forces  are  not  encouraged  to  function 
when  the  pores  are  being  continually  filled  and  packed  down  with  liquids,  pastes  or  pow- 
ders to  cover  up  impurities  that  all  respectable  persons  should  remove  by  sunlight  penetra- 
tion and  exercise  in  some  form.  Facial  massage  is  excellent  for  local  treatment,  while  the 
bottled  Sun  Cabinet  baths  are  par  excellent  for  naturally  producing  perspiration  and  con- 
stitutional elimination. 

So  you  see  beauty  is  surely  far  more  than  skin  deep.  For  persons  of  sedentary  habits 
a  genuine  oil  and  warm  water  internal  bath  should  be  taken;  the  yellow  or  orange  color 
electric  lamp  is  very  beneficial  in  cases  of  constipation,  though  it  is  a  slower  method. 


Wordsworth  says:     "Come  forth  into  the  light  of  things;  let  nature  be  your  teacher." 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 39 

WONDERS  OF  CREATION 

From  the  invisible  rates  of  conception,  to  the  visible  activities  of  perception,  are  re- 
lated the  electronic  vibrations  of  intelligence.  Thus  an  unseen  intelligent  power  connects 
(and  conducts)  that  which  is  reflected.  Therefore  we  are  constructed  with  the  spirit's 
mental  and  physical  light  reflectors.  As  the  physical  eye  is  the  reflecting  organ  of  light  and 
colors,  so  the  mental,  or  mind's  eye,  receives,  perceives  and  reflects  the  highest  conceivable 
octave  of  thought  lights  and  color  intelligence.  There  is  not  a  thing  in  Nature  that  can  not 
be  interpreted  by  color,  translated  by  sound  and  understood  by  the  human  search-light. 

SOUND  AND  TONE 

Every  vibration,  as  it  passes  through  space,  creates  sound  peculiar  to  its  rate  of  mo- 
tion within  its  own  octave  or  plain.  Sound  or  tone  and  space  are  intimately  associated  and 
registers  its  effects  upon  the  physical  nerves,  even  when  beyond  all  sense  perception. 

Thus,  sound  or  tone  are  inseparably  associated  with  rhythm  and  music.  As  sound 
like  the  high  and  faster  vibrations  of  color  is  the  potent  force  in  metabofism,  in  upbuilding, 
and  disintegrating,  in  constructing  and  destroying,  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance,  that 
we  understand  these  fundamentals  and  elementals  of  a  life-rating  and  life-preserving  edu- 
cation. If  inflicted  by  brain  racking,  nerve  wrecking  sounds,  termed  noise,  which  are  a  re- 
sult of  disrupted,  broken  rhythm,  the  higher  we  develop  along  the  scale  of  refinement, 
i.  e.,  the  higher  we  become  attuned  to  the  harmonies  of  Nature,  we  become  more  sensitized, 
and  should  avoid  "city  noises"  and  all  discordant  sounds. 

VIBRATIONS  OF  NOISE  AND  VOICE 

Noise  is  composed  of  inharmonious  sounds.  City  life  is  a  bedlam  of  mad  noises  day 
and  night,  except  in  obscure  sections  of  large  parks.  Loud  noise  is  cot  only  injurious 
to  the  nervous  system,  in  that  it  causes  inharmonious,  dis-ease  or  error-producing  condi- 
tions, but  continuous  and  unpleasant  noises  unbalance  the  secretions  and  circulat- 
ing fluids  of  the  human  body.  Noise  and  shocks  are  injurious  to  the  brain  and  prevent  the 
natural  poise  and  peace  of  mind  and  soul — so  needful  for  the  progressive  spirit  within  the 
human  soul.  Beware  of  becoming  noise  intoxicated  and  noise  mad,  for  this  dis-ease  of  the 
wrong  use  of  sound  creates  brain  fag,  nerve  prostration,  neurasthenia,  headache  and  dif- 
ferent degrees  of  insanity,  all  of  which  was  proven  in  tens  of  thousands  of  instances  during 
the  "World  War." 

Loud  talk  and  loud  coarse  laughter  are  injurious  to  the  health.  Such  noises  irritate 
the  delicate  structure  of  the  inner  ear  as  well  as  the  delicate  nerves  of  the  mucous  mem- 
brane. .Loud,  and  fooSsh  talking  is  coarse  and  harsh  to  any  person  possessing  a  civilizing 
degree  of  education  and  refinement  which  forbids  such  vibrations.  It  takes  a  strong  and  fine 


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character  to  speak  gently  with  a  well  modulated  voice.  It  means  balance,  poise  and  purity 
of  motives.  Even  shouting  or  screaming  should  seldom  be  "indulged  in/'  For  the  sake  of 
health,  for  a  peaceful  home,  for  purity  of  mind  and  body,  for  the  sake  of  music,  for  the 
sake  of  peace,  for  the  sake  of  all  that  is  good  and  great  and  for  Heaven's  sake  possess  or 
cultivate  a  gentle  conversational  voice.  Possess  or  study  the  harmony  of  sounds,  music 
and  art. 

Parents  injure  their  sensitive  children,  and  the  child  afflicts  its  parents,  by  untrained, 
uncontrolled  loud,  and  of  times  senseless  expressions;  such  habits  often  lead  to  hard  feel- 
ings, quarrels  and  fighting,  thus  preventing  that  which  is  thoughtful  and  noble  from  devel- 
oping. 

Dear  student  of  higher  rating,  let  us  avoid,  or  better  still  learn  to  rate  above  all  these 
brain-racking,  heart-shocking,  and  nerve-straining  sounds  of  noise  and  other  inharmo- 
nies.  When  the  vibrations  of  the  human  machine  have  become  rhythmical,  the  body,  with 
its  orchestra  of  ten  thousand  strings,  has  the  right  balance,  and  is  thus  in  tone  or  tune, 
vibrating  in  harmony  with  all  Nature,  our  Will,  the  mainspring  connected  with  all  our  oc- 
taves of  vibrations,  becones  an  all-powerful  controlling  magnet. 

Societies  for  the  elimiration  of  all  noises  and  unsightly  places  a-vl  sign  pictures  have 
been  organized  in  various  large  cities  in  the  United  States,  as  previcu  ly  in  Great  Britain. 


TRANSPLANTING  AND  TRANSFERENCE  OF  COLORS 

Different  colors  for  different  persons  are  absolutely  necessary,  according  to  tempera- 
ments and  to  their  natural  requirements,  which  depends  upon  the  human  system's  lack  or 
excess  of  a  color  balance,  which,  in  turn,  expresses  normality  and  health.  If  there  is  too 
much  red  of  a  certain  grade  in  the  blood  or  tissues,  an  inflamed  condition  is  noticeable — 
both  on  the  physical  and  from  the  mental  state  of  a  person.  If  there  is  too  much  blue  of  a 
certain  grade  in  the  body,  there  will  develop  from  lack  of  a  healthy,  harmonious  or  friendly 
red  on  the  physical  plane,  anemia  and  jaundice,  etc.,  and  across  the  bridge,  into  the  mental 
realm,  "the  blues,"  or  a  "dis"-agreeable  "dis"-position  (lack  of  position,  i.  e.,  poise). 

Thus,  as  Lights  and  Colors  interpret  the  condition  and  capacity  of  the  person  physi- 
cally, mentally  and  through  the  emotions,  they  are  also  translated  into  the  forms,  tastes, 
flavors,  perfumes,  odors  and  shades  of  thought,  from  the  inaudible  and  invisible  sounds 
and  colors  to  the  visible  rates  of  lights  and  color  vibrations. 

All  foods,  drink,  medicines,  and  even  the  air  we  breathe,  are  simply  modes  of  motion, 
which  represent  realms  with  their  degrees  of  intelligence  and  color  language — and  which, 
like  the  colored  clothing  we  choose  to  wear  affects  our  health  and  disposition  favorably; 
the  inner  ratings  of  feelings  are  affected  by  our  thought  colors. 


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LACK  OF  COLOR  JUDGMENT,  ETC. 

In  making  presents  of  ties  and  other  wearing  apparel,  the  majority  of  persons  are  de- 
ficient in  taste.  It  is  a  form  of  cruelty  to  children  to  be  compelled  to  wear  an  unpleasing 
colored  garment,  simply  because  it  was  presented  to  them.  We  should  realize  that  the 
non-blending  and  dark  colors  in  dresses,  ties,  hats  and  suits  are  not  only  devitalizing  to 
our  nervous  system  and  brain,  but  are  physically  and  mentally  depressing.  The  masculine 
sex  in  particular  suffer  by  presents  of  unsuitable  colored  ties  and  sox  forced  upon  them  by 
thoughtless  or  color  ignorant  persons.  One  seldom  finds  a  man  wearing  a  black  suit  and 
not  looking  tired  or  entertaining  a  sour  disposition.  Remember,  dear  reader,  we  can 
starve  and  suffer  greatly  for  lack  of  color  nourishment  associated  with  our  clothes,  our 
food  and  our  mental  environments. 


THE  BENEFICENCE  OF  LIGHT 

Pearls,  like  diamonds,  lose  their  luster  when  kept  in  the  dark,  but  regain  it  when  in 
contact  with  strong  light.  Birds,  as  a  rule,  become  timid  and  are  easily  frightened  in  the 
dark,  but  when  brought  into  the  sun-light  spread  their  feathers  and  commence  immediately 
to  chirp  and  sing.  Flowers  droop  in  the  dark,  open  up  and  express  delight  when  "daylight" 
comes;  the  plant  life  is  also  vitally  influenced  by  the  rays  of  light.  So  with  the  human 
"pearls,"  "flowers"  and  "plants"  or  "trees."  Observe  how  the  Southern  people,  or  those 
who  live  an  out-of-door  life,  are  joyful,  ruddy,  and  full  of  strong,  "sweet"  and  wholesome 
sentiments  and  optimism,  and  notice  how  their  eyes  of  light  and  love  are  expressive  and 
their  voices  are  musical.  Favorable  climatic  conditions  depend  on  light  with  its  family  of 
friendly  forces,  represented  in  name  by  rays  of  color  and  warmth  and  the  sounds  of  music 
and  the  electro-magnetic  healing  rates  of  vibrations,  all  of  which  produce  a  vital  and  bene- 
ficial influence  on  the  human  body  and  soul. 


Color  is  caused  by  impact  of  energy  waves  of  varying  rates  of  oscillation  and  lengths 
on  the  filaments  of  the  retinas  of  the  eyes  and  transmission  of  the  effects  along  the  optic 
nerve  to  that  mysterious — yet  marvelously  real — thing  manifesting  as  the  personal  mind 
either  unknown  to  or  not  recognized  in  the  brain  itself. 


"Unit"  of  light  means  the  shortest  idea  of  light,  and  this  measure  is  calculated  by  the 
light  of  our  intelligence  or  thought. 


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FLASH  LIGHT  THOUGHTS 

Note  the  significant  prefix — "dis" — dis-mal,  dis-use,  dis-rupt,  dis-cord,  dis-grace 
dis-obey,  dis-comfort,  dis-courage,  dis-advantage,  dis-organized,  disgust,  dis-agreeable, 
all  of  which  signify  a  dis  or  lack  of  harmony,  an  error  of  low  rating,  or  a  lack  of  poise 
while  vibrating  on  the  human  scale  of  Life. 


We  cannot  measure  the  electronic  energy  concentrated  in  an  acorn;  no  more  than 
we  can  figure  out  the  condensed  radio  activity  and  unlimited  possibilities  within  the 
human  embryo. 


The;  eye-ball's  whiteness  is  caused  by  the  fineness  of  the  blood-vessels,  which  do  not 
permit  the  red  corpuscles  to  enter  the  surface  of  the  eye-ball. 


Remember,  the  solar  plexus  rays  (sunshine)  in  the  mental  house  reflects  sunshine  in 
the  home. 


An  invention  has  been  perfected  this  year  for  visualizing  the  human  voice. 


The  author's  compliments  to  Descartes:     "I  think,  therefore  I  am/'  I  AM,  therefore 
I  think. 


The  diameter  of  Betelguese,  the  big  star  in  the  constellation  Orion,  is  300,000,000 
miles.  The  diameter  of  our  earth  is  less  than  8000  miles.  The  diameter  of  our  sun  is  866,- 
000  miles. 


Systematic  exercises  (including  deep  breathing)  is  the  keynote  to  elimination. 


As  a  rule,  ro  person  rates  as  low  or  "as  bad"  as  he  feels,  and  none  as  high  or  "as 
good"  as  he  thinks. 

o 

ANOTHER  SLEEP  INDUCER,  PLUS 

For  acute,  semi-acute  or  chronic  insomnia,  try  reading  dry  poetry  or  prose,  and  then 
count  the  breath  vibrations.  Ir.oians,  as  a  rule,  sleep  with  their  feet  up  hill,  and  thus  pre- 
vent sluggish,  dis-ease-producing  conges'ion. 


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CONGESTION  IS  THE  CAUSE  OF  DISEASE 

If  the  brain  is  congested,  we  call  the  owner  of  the  same  dense  or  ignorant;  if  there 
are  errors  or  irregularities  or  below  normal  ratings  in  the  physical  body,  it  is  termed 
dis-ease.  But  in  any  instance,  it  is  congestion — low  rating  conditions  and  the  stumbling 
block — and  the  blockading  to  a  clean  body,  a  clear  mind  and  an  energizing  soul.  Take 
care  of  the  passages  of  the  physical  body,  including  all  the  pores,  as  well  as  the  respiratory 
tract  and  the  thirty-odd  feet  of  alimentary  canal,  and  Master  Nature  will  take  care  of  the 
human  machinery,  the  vital  organs  and  systems. 


VISIBILITY  OF  SEVEN  OCTAVES 

The  Color  octave  with  its  variations  is  the  parent  language  of  the  Universe. 

The  white  light  is  the  middle  C  note  of  harmony  in  the  cathedra!  of  the  universal  Soul, 
which  is  the  soul's  treasure  house. 

The  color  spectrum  is  the  master  key  to  the  forces  of  the  universe,  and  includes  im- 
measurably more  than  the  visibility  of  force. 

The  human  eye  can  view  only  an  infinitessimal  division  of  Nature's  sights. 

Color  is  the  visible  as  well  as  "the  invisible"manifestation  of  vibration.  Visibility  of 
color  to  the  human  sight  includes  two  octaves  of  color,  and  with  research  and  concentra- 
tion along  the  higher  color  octaves  can  include  more  than  two  octaves.  The  average  per- 
son's visible  world  is  along  one  octave,  while  there  are  some  individuals  who  observe  only 
four  or  five  and  a  small  per  centage  of  "humans"  of  slow  vibration  who  can  distinguish 
but  three  or  four  colors.  The  lowest  rated  human  beings  on  the  average  only  see 
clearly  thd  three  primary  colors  of  red,  yellow  and  blue.  This  same  principle  and  ratio 
corresponds  with  regard  to  the  musical  sound  octaves.  By  finely  attuned  ears  of  percep- 
tion, we  can  see  or  rather  "hear"  degrees  of  color  vibrations,  not  to  the  ordinary  mortal 
discernible. 


COLORED  LIGHTS— A  MEANS  OF  DIAGNOSIS  AND  CURE 

The  following  is  from  a  reprint  by  another  physicist,  Dr.  Edwin  F.  Bowers,  on  "Col- 
ored Lights — A  Means  of  Diagnosis  and  Cure": 

If  there  were  developed  a  means  of  diagnosis  so  definite  as  to  be  practically  infallible, 
as  accurate  as  mathematics,  as  uniform  as  a  chemical  reaction,  and  so  simple  that  any 
doctor  of  even  ordinary  good  training  could  apply  it,  the  significance  of  the  discovery  could 
hardly  be  computed  in  terms  of  lives  and  money. 


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This  has  been  a  medical  vision,  a  vague  Utopian  dream,  ever  since  medicine  divorced 
empiricism  and  married  Science.  And  now  the  vision  has  become  a  reality,  the  dream  has 
become  an  actuality.  A  fellow  scientist  and  warm  friend  of  the  author,  George  Starr  White, 
M.  D.,  of  Los  Angeles,  Calif.,  discovered  a  natural  principle  worthy  of  close  attention  of 
the  student. 

He  merely  found  out  why  a  sick  carrier  pigeon  could  not  find  its  way  home.  Then 
he  applied  the  principle  there  discovered  to  determine  why  humans  and  animals  that  suf- 
fered from  disease  could  cot  find  their  way  back  to  health.  The  answer  was  the  same  in 
both  cases.  It  was  of  their  inability  to  respond  to  the  magnetism  that  flows  along  the  earth's 
magnetic  meridians.  And  this  inability  to  respond  to  the  magnetic  attraction  of  the  meri- 
dians is  because  some  disease  in  the  system  prevents  the  response  to  this  magnetic  flow. 

"The  greatest  living  scientists  are  now  agreed  that  all  that  differentiates  any  one  thing 
from  any  other  thing  in  Nature  is  the  difference  in  its  rate  of  vibration.  Color,  light, 
sound,  radio-active  energy  or  electricity  are  merely  expressions  of  certain  modes  of  motion 
— a  certain  rate  of  vibration.  Theoretically,  we  could  change  cheese  into  chalk  and  mud 
into  gold  and  disease  into  health  if  only  we  could  transmute  the  absolute  rate  of  vibration 
of  the  other. 

''It  will  be  remembered  that  only  a  few  years  ago  this  was  actually  accomplished  in 
the  case  of  a  certain  germ — the  anthrax  bacillus.  These  germs,  after  exposure  for  a  time 
to  ultra-violet  rays,  were  changed  into  an  entirely  different  species  of  germ,  as  was  proved 
by  the  fact  that  when  injected  into  animals  they  no  longer  developed  anthrax  in  that 
animal. 

"Thus  began  the  marvelous  system  of  diagrosis  to  which  that  soft  little  body  of  the 
carrier  pigeon  pointed  the  path  thirty-five  years  ago. 

Continuing  his  work  with  radiant  colors,  Dr.  White  found  that  patients  suffering 
from  constitutional  blood  disease — no  matter  how  mi'dly  tainted,  nor  of  how  long  duration 
the  condition,  and  irrespective  of  the  Wasserman  findings  (which  are  almost  as  frequently 
wrong  as  right)  gave  the  reflex  when  exposed  to  the  blue  light — the  speed  which  is  ap- 
proximately 160,000  miles  a  second — and  to  no  other  light. 

"There  is  no  chance  for  error.  Guesswork  is  entirely  eliminated.  If  they  have  syphilis 
they  give  this  reflex  to  the  blue  light.  If  they  do  not  respond — no  matter  how  many  emi- 
nent specialists  may  say  they  are  affected — they  are  free  from  this  particular  disease. 

"If  a  patient  gives  a  reaction  to  the  rays  of  the  purple  lamp,  he  is  gonorrheic. 

"With  similar  exactness  malaria  discloses  itself  to  a  certain  shade  of  blue-green  light, 
influenza  or  "tbe  grip"  to  a  red-green,  kidney  intoxications  to  a  shade  of  violet,  liver  dis- 
ease and  jaundice  to  green,  typhoid  to  blue-green  and  amber,  and  alcoholic  conditions  to 
deep  prune.  And  gradually  more  and  more  of  the  toxemias  are  coming  into  exact  classifi- 


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cation  as  regards  their  response  to  van-colored  lights.  It  is  merely  a  problem  in  vibration 
— each  disease  apparently  producing  a  definite  molecular  rapport  with  rays  of  light  trav- 
eling at  a  certain  speed.  And  it  would  seem  that  every  condition  that  so  modifies  the  ema- 
nations from  the  body  as  to  nullify  the  effect  of  the  energy  of  the  magnetic  meridian  upon 
it  has  a  definite  color  vibration  for  diagnosing  it. 

"The  colors  must  be  absolutely  'on  the  pitch/  however — they  must  be  accurately 
tuned  to  a  certain  vibration,  else  they  will  fail  to  elicit  the  reflex,  particularly  in  incipient 
conditions,  or  in  diseases  which  are  not  clearly  defined. 

'This  'absoluteness'  of  vibration,  however,  explains  why  Dr.  White  and  his  pupils 
must  work  in  subdued  light,  and  also  why  spectators  are  obliged  to  stand  back  four  or  five 
feet  from  the  subject.  Energy  is  energy,  whether  it  be  strong  sunlight,  moonlight,  electric 
light  or  the  magnetic  emanations  of  the  human  body.  And  inasmuch  as  the  energy  from 
the  magnetic  meridian  is  being  used  for  the  diagnosis,  any  other  energy  must  have  an  effect 
upon  the  results  secured." 


A  SUNSHINE  SOUL  FOR  HUMAN  ENERGY  AND  COLOR 

A  mild  and  naturally  soothing  method  of  securing  light  and  color  energy  is  through 
the  agency  of  direct  touch  on  the  surface  of  the  body  by  the  hands  of  a  healthy,  finely 
tuned  (re-fined),  friendly  soul,  who  understands  the  body  psychologically  as  well  as 
physiologically  and  has  the  greatest  welfare  of  the  patron  at  heart.  With  a  we!l-cared-for 
body,  and  with  no  dead  or  old  skin,  but  kept  "clean  and  sweet,"  the  results  are  marve?ous?y 
calming  and  scientifically  beneficial.  THE  OPERATOR  should  cultivate  a  strong  control 
and  an  instinctive  or,  better  still,  an  intuitive  co-operative  spirit,  and  serve  from  his  or 
her  Sun-centers  and  color  streams  a  positive  flow  of  energy.  The  patron  receives 
with  confidence  from  the  friendly  operator,  the  richest,  positive  energy.  The  receiver 
must  become  relaxed  and  negative,  so  as  to  be  naturally  more  receptive,  as  any  strain  or 
discomfort  is  a  manifestation  of  some  degree  of  dis-ease,  which  means  congesting  the 
flow  of  that  which  will  ease;  for  a  good  negative  demands  a  good  positive  to  calm  and 
control  the  balance  wheel  of  the  Human  Machine.;  The  magnetic,  high  coloring  of  the 
light  emanating  from  the  mind  and  soul  centers  of  a  spiritually,  clean-minded  person 
and  from  a  strongly-poised  and  restful  instructor  and  healer,  the  weary  body  and  brain 
are  frury  and  wonderfully  magnetized.  It  quickly  drives  away  the  "errors"  of  darkness  of 
low  vibrations.  This  is  especially  true  of  certain  natures  and  temperaments — with  corre- 
sponding and  complementary  souls,  and  bodies,  the  "Temples  of  these  souls"  even  regard- 
less of  sex.  In  some  cases  this  natural  condition  is  very  marked,  very  comforting  and  de- 
lightfully calming.  In  fact,  this  exchange  of  the  blue  to  violet,  high  rating  of  human  colors, 


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represents  the  most  vitalizing  nourishment  for  a  hungry  or  starving  soul,  and  is  more  of 
the  spiritual  than  of  the  mental. 


THE  SOUL'S  VIBRATION 

Sow  a  wish — reap  an  urge. 

Sow  an  urge — reap  a  breath. 

Sow  a  breath — reap  a  light 

Sow  a  light — reap  a  color. 

Sow  a  color — reap  a  thought 

Sow  a  thought — reap  an  idea. 

Sow  an  idea — reap  an  ideal. 

Sow  an  ideal — reap  an  action. 

Sow  an  action — reap  a  habit. 

Sow  a  habit — reap  a  character. 

Sow  a  character — reap  a  life. 

Sow  a  life — reap  a  unity. 

Sow  a  unity — reap  a  universality. 

Sow  a  universality — reap  a  Heaven.  E.  J.  S. 


Ignorance  is  a  poor  pedestal  to  set  virtue  upon,  and  mock  modesty  should  not  have 
the  right  to  prevent  people  from  knowing  themselves. — R.  G.  IngersolL 


COLOR  SOURCES 

There  are  other  sources  of  color-energy  for  a  finely  attuned  person  to  draw  from  to 
a  smaller  degree,  viz.,  the  FLORAL  KINGDOM,  which  are  also  full  of  a  calm  inspiration 
and  which,  to  a  true  poet  of  nature,  are  so  friendly.  Who  dare  deny  the  harmonizing  ef- 
fect of  gazing  on  and  communing  with  the  little  sunny  natures  of  the  precious  rainbow 
colors  of  the  violet,  of  the  loving  rose  and  the  daring  forget-me-nots. 

Then,  too,  we  have  in  THE  ANIMAL  realm  the  light  of  love,  as  expressed  in  the  eyes 
of  the  deer,  the  horse  and  other  non-flesh  devouring  animals.  There  is  a  certain  mutual, 
pleasing,  comforting  understanding,  truly  and  sincerely  an  exchange  of  friendly  magnet- 
ism when  the  human  eye  and  touch  meet  the  corresponding  light  and  energy  in  Mother 


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Nature's  animal  family.    Woe  to  the  person  who  willfully  destroys  or  injures  these  higher 
developed  human-like  sources  of  Eight  and  friendship. 

Nature  abounds  and  rebounds  with  inspirational  and  respirational  colors,  and  to  a 
small  degree  the  human  artist  attempts  to  portray  color  life  with  their  respective  hues  and 
shades. 


REGISTERING  VIBRATIONS 

Through  the  law  of  development  we  can  register  more  and  more  vibrations.  At  pres- 
ent the  average  for  the  race  consciousness  for  sound  is  14  octaves;  taste  averages  several 
octaves;  smell  averages  several  octaves.  Some  human  beings  can  see  tone  and  hear  col- 
ors; then  there  is  the  registering  by  touch  for  distinguishing  colors.  While  all  colors  possess 
their  positives  and  negatives — black  is  the  combination  of  all  the  negatives  and  the  absorp- 
tion of  all  the  colors.  White  is  the  universally  preferred  color  combination,  f of  it  expresses 
a  higher  form  of  vibration.  All  colors  that  glow  are  positive. 


CHAPTER  VII 
THE  AUTHOR'S  BLUE  LIGHT  EXPERIMENTS 

From  1917  to  1919  the  author  experimented  personally,  and  with  the  co-operation  of 
Dr.  Ella  R.  Bell,  with  the  electric  colored  lights  by  reflex  applicators  containing  two  or  more 
pure  colored  glass  40  to  60-watt  g'obes  and  with  the  different  sized  therapeutic  lamps  of 
greater  power.  It  was  easily  demonstrated  that  red  would  invariably  irritate  inflamed  or 
painful  conditions.  We  soon  learned  that  yellow  and  orange  were  good  laxatives,  and  that 
the  biter  would  slightly  relieve  inflamed  troubles,  and  that  green  and  purple  had  a  moder- 
ately quieting  effect.  In  other  words,  the  higher  frequency  colored  lights  counteracted  the 
lower  rating  electronic  conditions. 

It  is  with  the  blue  triad  or  division  of  the  sun's  spectrum,  including  indigo  and  violet 
and  with  their  different  hues,  that  we  found  by  far  the  most  satisfactory  results.  In  severe 
cases  of  congestion,  neuritis  and  ulcerated  conditions,  as  well  as  in  practically  all  inflamed 
and  painful  affections,  in  addition  to  affording  relief  locally  the  blue  and  indigo  lights, 
especially  when  focussed  on  the  neck,  produced  a  drowsy  effect.  In  fact,  it  produced  in 
numerous  cases  sleep  at  a  very  short  time,  even  when  half  blue  and  half  white  colored 
lamps  and  reflectors  were  used.  When  two  or  three  blue  globes  were  included  in  one  of  our 
De  Luxe  Bottled  Sunshine  Cabinets  complete  relaxation  and  sleep  for  the  nervous  patron 
was  the  result. 

Many  a  worn  out,  nerve-racked  person  can  testify  to  the  immediate  counteracting 
effect  to  congestive  conditions  of  the  mind  and  body,  by  the  use  of  this  very  prac- 
tical Science  and  Mind  treatment.  The  colors  are  truly  the  key  to  the  Scriptures  of  Nature 
and  its  two-fold  universe. 

For  severe  sprains,  blue,  we  found,  to  be  the  color  to  give  relief  and  reduce  the  swell- 
ing. For  skin  eruptions,  violet  or  cobalt  blue  brought  about  some  almost  miraculous 
cures.  This  is  also  true  in  connection  with  wounds  and  ulcers. 

Dr.  Wm.  Poole,  a  member  of  the  Stevens  Light  and  Color  Institute,  a  surgeon  of  high- 
est standing  in  his  profession,  found  the  use  of  the  blue  lights  more  satisfactory  than  any 


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of  the  old  school  medication  in  treating  inflamed  and  acute  pains  and  prescribed  the  white 
and  blue  baths  or  local  applications  for  elimination  and  relief  from  bodily  poisons.  He  also 
used  it  on  himself  for  toothache,  etc. 

Dr.  Ella  R.  Bell,  a  member  of  our  artaff  for  nearly  four  years,  has  used  the  electric  light 
colors,  particularly  the  blue  and  green,  with  the  most  gratifying  results. 

At  the  present  time  the  writer  is  trying  out  three  different  hues  of  orange  and  green  as 
alteratives  and  re-energizers.  The  red,  we  know  from  personal  experience,  should  not  be 
used  for  inflamed  parts  of  the  body,  as  it  is  too  irritating.  In  the  author's  advanced  book 
— Vol.  II — some  valuable  experiments  will  be  reported  on  the  therapeutic,  psychological 
and  moral  effects  of  the  various  color  hues.  It  is  well  known  that  our  ex-President  Wood- 
row  Wilson  owes  his  recovery  largely  to  his  blue  light  treatments.  It  was  found  to  produce 
a  remarkably  soothing  and  strengthening  effect  on  his  wrecked  nervous  condition. 


CHROMO-PSYCHO  THERAPY 
ELECTRIC  LIGHT,  HEAT  AND  COLOR  FOOT  BATHS 

Dr.  J.  W.  Starkey,  foot  surgeon  in  connection  with  the  Stevens  Light  and  Color  Insti- 
tute, uses  the  Violet  Color  for  antiseptic  cauterizing,  and  finds  the  violet  rays  most  sooth- 
ing. This  specialist  finds  that  violet  rays  promptly  relieves  pains  in  the  feet  and  legs  and 
also  reports  that  while  black  stockings  irritate  sensitive  feet,  the  light  colored  hosiery  tends 
to  decrease  negative  conditions. 

Red  is  stimulating.  Yellow  and  Orange  relaxing.  Blue  is  sedative  and  calming. 
White  is  penetrating  and  balancing.  Violet  is  soothing  and  healing.  Dark  red  is  irritating. 

Extracts  from  a  lecture  by  Herman  Boeker,  M.  D.,  delivered  on  Jan.  7,  1916,  at  the 
School  of  Chiropody  of  New  York. 

"To  be  able  to  harness  this  force  and  to  focus  it  upon  any  desired  organ  or  function 
of  the  body,  is  one  of  the  newest  and  greatest  triumphs  of  modern  therapeutics." 

Finsen  noted  that  the  growth  of  the  nails,  hair  and  other  epidermal  tissues  is  encour- 
aged by  light  and  hindered  by  darkness. 

Bacteria  which  resist  strong  solutions  of  germicides,  and  even  prolonged  boiling,  are 
quickly  killed  by  exposure  to  light. 

The  March,  1919,  issue  of  "The  Pedic  Items,"  official  organ  of  chiropody,  on  page  26, 
contains  an  article  by  Nellie  B,  Cooper,  M.  Cp.  on  "Electricity  in  Chiropody." 

"In  the  most  successful  chiropody  treatments  I  have  ever  given,  the  violet  ray  and  blue 
light  have  played  an  important  part.  I  have  had  excellent  results  in  many  cases  of  in- 
fected ingrown  nails,  bunions  and  corns,  the  violet  ray  helping  nature  to  discharge  the  pus. 
This  ray  not  only  increases  th?  circulation,  but  also  reduces  the  severe  pain." 


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One  severe  case  of  ingrown  nail  was  relieved  by  a  fifteen  minute  treatment;  the  dead 
tissues  had  been  previously  removed,  the  nail-groove  had  been  cleansed,  and  hot  antiseptic 
ointment  had  been  applied,  but  the  parts  were  so  painful  that  it  was  impossible  to  slip  cotton 
under  the  nail.  The  rays  increased  the  circulation  and  stimulated  all  the  tissues  to  greater 
activity,  with  a  resultant  cure." 

"After  cleansing  and  opening  a  blistered  heel,  it  is  much  relieved  by  the  use  of  ointment 
and  Blue  Light." 

If  the  part  to  be  operated  on  is  very  painful,  the  sedative  (blue)  should  be  applied. 

One  may  often  find  that  a  surface  is  too  painful  to  even  bear  the  weight  of  the  glass 
electrode.  For  such  a  condition  the  Blue  Light  and  the  Stevens  gold  medal  awarded  Balsam 
Extract  A  will  bring  quick  results. 

In  pedicuring,  the  use  of  Blue  Therapeutic  Light  is  a  great  help  to  a  successful  treat- 
ment. 


RED  AND  BLUE  COLORS 

The  world  over  no  one  ever  heard  of  red  stripes  on  the  nurses'  dress,  uniform  or  apron, 
but  blue  is  the  popular  and  regulation  stripe.  Blue  is  used  with,  splendid  results  to  calm 
the  j  insane  or  unbalanced,  particularly  in  the  institutional  garments  worn  by  the  unbal- 
anced as  well  as  the  attendants.  Even  the  state  prisons  and  chain  gangs  universally  keep 
to  the  blue  as  the  necessary  predominant  color  for  the  official  garb.  One  only  has  to 
observe  the  effect  ,of  red  on  our  friend,  the  red-blooded  bull.  It  simply  adds  insult  to  in- 
jury. It  acts  like  red  pepper  on  an  inflamed  mucus  membrane,  for  it  makes  the  animal 
nature  wild  and  raving. mad  till  the  reaction  appears — of  heat  bringing  about  cold  (a  cold 
sweat) — and  if  the  intelligent  sub-intelligence  back  of  the  sweat  glands  were  not  in  close 
touch  with  the  complementary  forces  of  the  Parent  solar  system,  we  would,  after  each  red 
temper  or  tempest  or  cyclone,  simply  go  irretrievably  to  pieces  in  this  incarnation.  The 
red  must  ever  look  up  to  the  higher  saving  grace  of  the  Heavenly  blue,  or  the  seventh 
and  highest  color  potency  of  violet,  often  termed  the  angelic  hue. 


Vibrations  of  emotions  afford  us  the  richest  opportunity  to  transplant  our  ideals  into 
practical  ideas,  and  to  plant  our  seeds  of  newly  acquired  thoughts  into  the  Soul's  garden  of 
feeling  and  unfoldment.  With  each  succeeding  thrill  of  spiritual  emotion,  we  can  make 
new  inroads  and  beds  for  more  character  seed-planting.  As  we  cultivate  the  plants  of  our 
love  sowing  with  the  vibrating  water  of  life  and  warmed  by  the  sun  rays  of  the  soul,  we  be- 
come filled  and  saturated  with  the  spirit  o?  health,  youth  and  joy. 


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HOT  AND  COLD  VIBRATIONS 

Cold  currents  develop  heat  waves.  Heat  currents  develop  cold  waves.  We  learn  the 
lesson  here  that  cold,  or  cool  stimulating  colors  and  water  baths  are  for  red-blooded  persons, 
while  warm  or  tepid  color  applications  or  water  baths  are  for  blue-blooded  and  sensitized 
souls.  As  a  rule  brunettes  take  to  warm  water  and  blondes  to  cool  or  hot  water;  the  same 
is  true  in  relation  to  the  climate  and  weather. 

Red  represents  the  lower,  denser  and  "coarser"  vibrations,  while  Blue1  expresses  the 
higher,  lighter  and  refining  and  healing  force  of  our  solar  system.  Yes,  it  is  the  triad  of 
blue  to  violet  that  works  miracles  over  all  the  lower  color  realms  and  activities.  Note  the 
calm,  majestic  magnitude  of  the  great  blue  sky;  the  soothing  effect  of  the  light  blue  or 
violet-shaded  draping  and  wallpaper,  or  the  delicate,  refined  little  violets  or  bluebells  of 
Scotland  and  of  the  blue  eyes  of  any  animal  or  human  being. 


MARVELS  OF  PHYSIO-PSYCHO-CHROMOPATHY 

The  Blue,  Violet,  Green  and  even  the  Orange,  colors  in  the  electric  light  change  our 
static,  slow  and  congested  conditions  of  body  and  mind  into  dynamic  force.  These  higher 
colors  convert  our  latent  into  manifest  powers  of  Health,  Success  and  Joy. 


BLUE  TO  VIOLET  AND  GREEN 

These  colors  and  white  electric  globes  of  40  to  60  or  more  watts,  each  arranged  six 
inches  apart,  alternating,  and  arranged  in  an  enclosure  for  local  or  general  bodily  uses, 
will  emanate  the  brighter  and  finer  forces  of  the  white  light.  Using  reflecting  hardened 
enamel  the  effect  is  intensified,  and  when  connected  with  the  purified  air,  inhalation  of  bal- 
sam air,  the  result  is  naturally  magical  It  will  not  only  spell  vibrations  finely  attuned 
but  it  spells  emotions  finely  attuned. 

Elimination 

Perspiration 

Respiration 

with  Inspiration 

Thus  releasing  congestion,  disease  or  "errors"  committed  in  the  brain  and  body,  and 
which,  in  the  last  analysis,  reads:  Cleanliness  is  Godliness  for  the  Soul's  Clean  Human 
Temple. 

COLORS  NOURISH  and  with  food  more  vital  than  that  which  the  stomach  receives. 
Colors  are  immediately  digested  and  assimilated  by  the  body,  mind  and  soul. 


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COLOR  AFFINITIES  AND  BLENDING 

The  "White  Light"  represents  the  union  and  balance  of  ail  the  colors.  This  is  true  in 
all  the  seven  octaves  and  applies  to  the  invisible  as  well  as  the  visible  realms,  and  it  in- 
cludes the  visible  human  auras  and  the  thought  vibrations. 

The  three  or  triad  of  primary  colors  of  red,  yellow  and  blue  are  divided  into  the 
seven  colors  of  red,  orange,  yellow,  green,  blue,  indigo  and  violet. 

Black  is  the  absorption  of  all  co'ors  and  represents  concealment,  repression  and 
depression. 

White  is  an  expression  of  all  colors  and  represents  a  balance  and  expansion,  and 
revelation. 

The  following  colors  blend  and  balance — 

Red  with  Blue 

Orange  with  Indigo 

Yellow  with  Violet 

Red  mixing  with  Blue  makes  Purple. 

The  following  colors  affect  one  as  noted: 

Dark  and  murky  Red  is  irritating. 

Light  Red  to  Pink  is  stimulating  and  brilliant. 

Yellow  to  Orange  is  luminous  and  laxative. 

Green  is  energizing  and  vitalizing. 

Dark  or  heavy  Blue  like  dark  Grays  and  dark  Brown,  is  enervating  and  dense. 

Light  Blue  to  Violet  is  cooling,  soothing,  calming  and  magnetic. 


TRIAD  OF  COLOR,  FORM  AND  SOUND 

This  family  or  trinity  is  intimately  associated.  Co!or  can  be  tasted  by  some  persons, 
distinguished  by  touch  by  some,  and  others  it  can  be  even  heard.  This  is  due  to  a  finely 
attuned  or  sensitized  nature  together  with  education  by  the  outer  as  well  as  by  inner  senses. 
Color  is  to  the  mental  what  music  is  to  the  emotions.  Color  hearing  and  sound  seeing  are 
known  under  the  name  of  synesphesia  and  pho'ism.  See  encyclopedia. 

Touch  is  the  lower,  while  seeing  is  the  higher  physical  vibration.  Feeling,  which  in  it- 
self is  not  classed  with  any  of  the  outer  senses,  is  the  parent  of  the  senses  and  can 
be  made  to  take  the  place  of  any  or  all  of  them.  It  has  been  discovered  by  a  series  of  ex- 
periments that  the  human  skin  can  develop  invisible  eyes  to  see,  according  to  scientific 
authorities. 

A  public  school  department  has  been  established  in  Tacoma,  Washington,  to  train 


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the  deaf  and  dumb  to  dance  by  music  vibration  felt  by  the  feet.  Helen  Keller  is  a  fit 
example  of  what  feeling  can  be  made  to  do  when  some  of  the  common  senses  were  never 
developed.  The  Patonia  New  York  Asylum  for  the  Blind  is  training  their  students  to  dis- 
tinguish colors,  and  the  results  are  truly  remarkable. 

Color  is  a  force,  and  :ike  all  forces  it  is  positive  and  negative.  The  primary  colors  are 
red,  objective,  blue  subjective,  yellow  objective.  Positive  red  is  represented  as  fire  of  a 
slow  rate  and  as  antagonizing  and  as  non-spiritual.  It  signifies  blood-shed,  war,  hate,  rev- 
olution and  red  anarchy  in  its  negative  sense.  (See  Funk  &  Wagnall's  New  Century 
Dictionary  foi*  the  positive  and  negative  of  all  co'ors.) 

There  are  innumerable  hues  and  shades  and  tints  in  the  red  and  blue  co'ors.  Yellow 
negative  is  represented  by  jaundice,  meanness/  cloudiness.  Light  yellow  is  positive  and 
means  relaxation,  receptivity,  aspiration.  Orange  represents  inspiration,  thought-force, 
glory,  courage.  Green-negative,  unnatural  growth,  lack  of  knowledge  (green  as  grass), 
etc.  Green-positive  means  new  growth,  vigor  and  power  in  unfolding.  It  is  nitrogenous. 
Blue-negative  is  fatiguing,  and  when;  very  heavy  may  become  oppressive.  Blue  positive 
is  purifying  and  uplifting.  Indigo  is  a  little  higher  rate  of  frequency  and  potency  than  the 
regular  blue.  Violet  is  the  highest  point  of  the  b'ue  triad  and  just  below  the  X-ray.  It 
stands  for  supreme)  g?ory,  victory  and  idealistic  development.  The  ultra-violet  and  X-ray 
are  on  the  border  Kne  emanating  from  the  highest  point  of  the  octave  of  colors. 

Thought  and  Word  Vibrations.  Every  thought,  word  and  sensation  sends  its  color  and 
creates  the  encircling  aura.  We  cannot  be  afraid  of  dark  places  if  we  keep  in  tune  with 
the  infinite  supply'  of  the  white  or  higher  shinjng  lights.  We  become  a  center  of  radiant 
energy.  It  must  be  remembered  that  warm  colors  are  positive,  and  cold  colors  are  nega- 
tive. 

Black  represents  separation,  darkness,  cloudiness,  denseness,  crime  and  death. 

Color  builds  our  environment.  We  use  forty  octaves  in  the  training  of  our  intelligence. 
By  thought  and  prayer  colors  can  reach  to  the  fourth  dimension.  AH  motion  is  differenti- 
ated by  colors.  Atomic  and  molecular  vibrations  set  up  a  sound  f one  or  a  color,  and 
these  produce  cellular  vibrations  which  in  turn  set  up  vibrations  of  the  body  and  stimulate 
the  tissue  cell  and  vital  organs.  To  llustrate  the  power  of  vibration  we  read  of  how 
Joshua  marched  his  army  around  Jericho  till  the  strong  walls  of  the  city  shook  and  fell. 
The  rhythm  of  a  great  army  marching  in  unison  together  with)  all  their  trumpets  sounding 
one  note  produced  this  natural  result.  Every  General  realizes  the  potency  of  marching 
his  army,  keeping  the  same  step  on  a  bridge.  Our  thoughts  as  we  gather  them  into  a  vibrat- 
ing enclosure,  like  the  nervous  system  and  brain  with  our  will  power,  like  a  general  of  an 
army,  is  powerful  enough  to  shake  the  foundations  of  all  negative  and  obstructive  lower 


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and  negative  forces.  The  thought  vibrations  which  we  hold  under  poise  and  control  are 
potential,  while  those  we  send  out  are  kinetic.  Thought  colors  have  been  photographed, 
and  there  are  some  who  claim  that  thought  colors  are  seen  by  the  naked  eye. 


CHAPTER  VIII 

COLOR  SYMBOLISM,  THOUGHTS,  EMOTIONS,  PASSIONS 
AND  EFFECTS 

When  not  otherwise  designated,  the  following  colors  are  measured  as  a  whole  by  their 
hues,  shades  or  blendings: 

BLACK  symbolizes  darkness,  night,  cloudiness,  density,  sloth  and  even  "crime." 

BROWN  represents  earth,  dust,  dirt,  doubt;  is  a  negative  and  neutral  color. 

GREEN  represents  dawn,  awakening. 

The  primary  or  color  triangle  is  Red,  Yellow,  Blue.  Our  solar  spectrum  or  rainbow 
colors  are  red,  orange,  yellow,  green,  blue,  indigo,  violet,  with  innumerable  hues  and  vari- 
ations. 

We  will  continue  our  lesson  on  color  symbolism.  Commencing  with  the  first  step  of 
our  color  ladder,  we  have 

PURE  BLOOD  RED  representing  life  and  stimulation. 

MURKY  RED,  lower  life  and  animal  passions,  irritaing,  exciting. 

VERMILLION  is  materialism,  worldliness,  flashy  and  flightiness. 

PINK,  friendliness,  light-heartedness,  playfulness. 

YELLOW,  when  murky,  is  lifeless,  sordid,  jealous,  untrue. 

YELLOW,  relaxation,  little  animal  passion. 

BRIGHT  YELLOW  is  pomp,  show,  shallow  or  artificiality. 

ORANGE  (and  Cinnamon)  is  relaxing  and  alterative. 

GREEN  is  vitality,  freshness,  newness,  immolation,  inexperience  (green  as  grass). 

DULL  GREEN  is  a  sedative  and  laxative. 

BRIGHT  GREEN  signifies  energy,  growth. 

PURPLE  is  pride,  aristocratic,  royal. 

LAVENDER  is  sadness,  ease. 

BLUE  is  genuineness,  calm,  devotion,  serene,  healing,  charming. 

MURKY  BLUE  is  depressing. 

VIOLET  is  magnetism,  goodness. 

BLUE,  INDIGO  AND  VIOLET  represent  power,  high-rating,  victorious. 

ULTRA  VIOLET  is  the  Heavenly  color— the  top  of  the  color  ladder. 

WHITE  is  balance,  unity,  control,  "On  the  level." 


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COLOR  SOURCES  AND  REALMS 

Visible  and  Non-visible  Lights,  Colors,  Hues,  Tints,  Shades  and  Shadows.    Color 
Potency,  Their  Quality,  Their  Relationship,  Their  Uses  and  Abuses. 


Spiritual  Colors. 

Emotional  Colors. 

Electronic  Colors. 

Magnetic  Colors. 

Sex  Creative  Colors. 

Gaseous  Colors. 

Liquid  Colors. 

Mineral  Colors. 

Vegetable  Colors. 

Floral  Colors. 

Water  Colors. 

Animal  Colors. 

Human  Colors. 

Astral  Colors. 

Mental  Colors. 

Solar  Colors. 

Stellar  Colors. 

Angelic  Colors. 

Godly  Colors. 

Esthetic  Colors. 

Colors  in  Music. 

Colors  in  Painting. 

Colors  in  Poetry. 

Colors  in  Dreams. 

Colors  in  Worship. 

Colors  in  Character. 

Colors  in  Love. 

Colors  in  Marriage. 

Colors  in  History. 

Colors  in  Morality. 

Co'ors  in  Religion. 

Colors  in  Education. 

Colors  in  Instinct  and  Intuition. 


Colors  in  Mysticism. 

Colors  in  Revelation. 

Colors  in  Knowledge  and  Growth. 

Color  in  Sentiments  and  Romance. 

Color  in  Health  Psychology. 

Color  in  Classification. 

Colors  in  Color. 

Colors  in  Light 

Colors  in  White. 

Color  in  Photography. 

Color  in  Races. 

Colors  of  Birds. 

Colors  of  Fishes. 

Color  in  the  Ocean. 

Color  in  Physical  Senses. 

Color  in  Human  Complexion. 

Color  in  the  Skies. 

Color  in  the  Passions. 

Color  in  the  Motions. 

Color  in  the  Aura. 

Color  in  the  Thought. 

Color  in  Breath. 

Color  in  Health. 

Color  in  Disease. 

Color  in  Remedies. 

Color  in  Disposition. 

Color  in  Foods  and  Drinks. 

Color  in  Dress. 

Color  in  Houses  and  Rooms. 

Colors  in  Clothing. 

Color  in  Confectioneries. 

Color  in  Vehic'es. 

Color  in  Psycho-therapy. 


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SOUND  AND  COLOR 

Dr.  Edwin  D.  Babbitt,  in  his  "Principles  of  Light  and  Color"  (compiled  and  greatly 
condensed  by  W.  J.  Colviile),  says: 

"Concerning  the  relations  between  Sound  and  Color,  much  has  been  said  and  pub- 
lished. A  simp'e  comparison  is  made  by  considering  the  note  C  at  the  bottom  of  the  musi- 
cal scale  as  the  equivalent  of  Red;  for  C  is  made  with  the  coarsest  vibrations  of  air,  and 
Red  is  made  with  the  coarsest  waves  of  luminous  ether.  The  musical  note  B  requires 
forty-five  vibrations  of  air  every  time  it  is  sounded,  while  C  requires  only  twenty-four,  at 
the  lowest  end  of  the  scale. 

When  one  musical  octave  is  finished  another  commences,  progressing  with  twice  as 
many  vibrations  per  second  as  in  the  one  preceding,  therefore  the  same  notes  are  repeated 
on  a  finer  scale.  Likewise  when  the  Scale  of  Color  is  completed  in  Violet  another  octave 
(invisible  to  ordinary  sight)  commences  with  double  the  number  of  vibrations  common  to 
the  lower  scale.  The  shortest  atmospheric  waves  of  which  average  human  ears  can  take 
cognizance  are  about  three  and  one-half  inches  in  length.  The  shortest  Violet  rays  per- 
ceived by  ordinary  vision  are  100,000  times  as  short,  for  it  requires  60,000  vibrations,  i.  e., 
30,000  complete  waves  of  such  color,  to  make  one  inch  in  length.  The  longest  waves  of 
air  perceivable  by  ordinary  human  ears  as  sound  are  about  seventy  feet  in  length;  these 
are  the  lowest  bass  notes.  The  longest  complete  waves  of  ether  receivable  into  human  eyes 
as  color  requires  from  17,000  to  18,000  vibrations  to  an  inch,  not  far  from  fifteen  mil  ioi 
times  as  many  as  the  largest  waves  of  sound  require.  After  giving  these  scientifically  dem- 
onstrated facts  to  his  readers,  Dr.  Babbitt  dilates  upon  the  construction  of  the  telephone, 
and  then  proceeds  to  argue  that  human  vision  is  not  yet  so  far  evolved  as  hearing ;  percep- 
tion of  varying  sounds  requiring  less  fine  development  of  organism  than  is  needed  for  acute 
discrimination  of  colors  in  various  octaves." 

In  the  words  of  Dr.  Babbitt,  "Sunlight  constitutes  a  truly  celestial  materia  medica,  far 
safer  and  far  more  potent  and  enduring  than  any  cruder  elements,  provided  we  know  how 
to  deal  with  it.  Minerals  are  at  the  lowest  end  of  Nature's  scale  of  forces,  and  are  so  crude 
that  their  particles  cannot  float  in  the  atmosphere ;  consequently  they  are  held  down  in  the 
bosom  of  the  earth.  The  vegetable  world,  which  contains  all  forms  of  nourishment  neces- 
sary for  the  human  body,  is  devoid  of  the  coarser  elements,  which  are  sifted  out  by  a  beau- 
tiful and  most  ingenious  process  in  Nature's  perfect  laboratory." 

HOW  TO  ARRANGE  COLORS  IN  ELECTRIC  LIGHT  CABINETS 

In  a  valuable  book  (not  now  readily  procurable),  "Blue  and  Red  Light,"  by  Dr.  Pan- 
coast,  we  find  a  great  number  and  variety  of  intensely  interesting  and  instructive  tributes 


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to  the  curative  influence  of  Color  Baths.  A  woman,  thirty-five  years  of  age,  suffering  from 
consumption  in  the  advanced  stage  called  third,  with  both  lungs  seriously  involved,  afflicted 
with  distressing  night-sweats  and  subject  to  periodical  chills  and  flushing — a  case  which 
appeared  to  be  hereditary,  both  her  parents  and  many  other  members  of  her  immediate 
family  having  succumbed  to  a  similar  disease, — was  almost  entirely  cured  by  red  light 
baths.  Dr.  Babbitt,  in  his  recital  of  Dr.  Pancoast's  testimony  concerning  the  above,  and 
many  other  similar  cases  equally  impressive,  suggests  that  a  still  more  effective  color-treat- 
ment would  include  the  employment  of  deep  blue  glass  for  the  head,  then  red  beneath  it, 
then  yellow,  and  finally  red  for  the  limbs.  This  he  declares  to  be  an  extremely  potent  com- 
bination. (It  is  the  scientific  and  natural  method  of  arrangement  of  the  colored  electric  light 
globes  in  a  Bottled  Sunshine  Cabinet.) 

If  red  is  employed  for  any  considerable  time  and  inflammation  presents  itself,  this  can 
be  readily  vanquished  by  substituting  blue  temporarily.  Purple  often  serves  as  the  happy 
medium  between  highly  stimulating  red  and  cooling,  tranquilizing  blue. 

Red  proves  injurious  when  the  system  is  highly  inflamed,  and  it  is  very  seldom  found 
beneficial  with  persons  possessing  red  hair  or  rubicund  countenance.  Feverish  and  excit- 
able temperaments  require  the  soothing  influences  of  green  and  blue.  Every  one  can  receive 
benefit  from  simple  white. 

It  is  easily  within  the  capacity  of  every  interested  reader  or  student  to  prove  to  his  or 
her  personal  knowledge  and  satisfaction  that  color  exerts  an  immense  influence  upon  health 
in  all  its  phases.  As  insanity  unfortunately  is  still  a  problem  with  which  society  is  wrest- 
ling, we  count  it  a  pleasing  duty  and  a  distinct  privilege  to  offer  items  of  well-authenti- 
cated testimony  to  the  great  relief  afforded  by  a  judicious  use  of  chromotherapy  in  the 
treatment  of  the  mentally  afflicted  and  infirm. 

Long  ago,  in  a  prominent  French  lunatic  asylum,  blue  and  other  light  rays  were  most 
benignantly  employed.  Except  in  cases  of  melancholy  madness,  red  should  be  excluded 
from  the  vision  of  the  insane.  Blue  is  par  excellence  the  color  which  subdues  violent  mania 
and  excites  noble  moral  feelings. 

Yellow  acts  principally  upon  the  nerves.  Among  laxatives  and  purgatives  yellow  is 
usually  the  principal  color,  but  in  drastic  purgatives  red  is  dominant.  The  well  known 
household  remedy,  senna,  displays  beautiful  flowers  of  golden  yellow;  the  calyx  is  composed 
of  five  oval  yellow  leaves;  the  ten  stamens  have  yellow  filaments  and  brown  anthers.  This 
good  old  family  friend  is  pronounced  by  Hgh  medical  authority  "an  efficient  and  safe 
cathartic." 

Figs,  which  we  can  enjoy  at  any  time,  are  abundant  in  laxative  or  aperient  properties; 
they  are  of  yellowish  and  brownish  tint  when  at  their  best.  Castor  oil,  a  simple  remedy, 


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mildly  cathartic,  is  of  a  yellowish  tint.  Olive  oil,  one  of  eur  most  wholesome  and  widely 
employed  food1  products,  is  pale  yellow  or  greenish  yellow ;  it  is  a  mild  laxative  and  highly 
nutritive;  physicians  frequently  prescribe  it  wisely  as  an  antidote  to  irritation  of  the  intes- 
tines. Sulphur  furnishes  another  example  of  yellow  in  connection  with  laxative  properties. 
Eggs  with  their  yellow  yolks  frequently  display  similar  properties  and  can  be  classed  often 
as  aperients.,  Peaches  have  yellowish  pulp  and  are  also  laxative.  Rhubarb  of  the  best 
quality  is  yellow,  tinged  with  reddish  brown.  Turning  once  more  from  foods  or  accredited 
medicines  to  colored  glass,  it  is  constantly  being  demonstrated  that  the  color  rays  trans- 
mitted through  glass  augments  the  effects  produced  by  partaking  of  suitable  vegetable 
foods  and  remedies  and)  act  as  efficient  substitutes  where  the  desirab'e  foods  or  medicines 
are  not  procurable. 

SOLARIZING  WATER 

Dr.  Babbitt's  favorite  practice  of  solarizing  water  by  exposing  it  to  sunlight  in  HER- 
METICALLY sealed  chromo-lenses  for  several  hours  before  using  it,  enabled  him  to  prove 
conclusively  how  powerful  is  this  simple  home  remedy,  one  that  can  well  be  placed  within 
the  reach  of  all.  Solarized  water  possesses  alterative  and  curative  properties  so  pro- 
nounced as  to  be  almost  beyond  belief,  unless  we  have  individually  experimented  with  it. 

In  all  cases  of  costiveness,  yellow  and  orange  are  the  colors  which  act  most  readily 
and  satisfactorily,  however  they  may  be  applied.  There  are  many  plants  which  so  combine 
red  with  yellow — of  these  dandelion  and  mustard  are  notable  examples — as  to  act  both  as 
gentle  stimulants  and  laxatives.  Orange  glass  (electric  lamps)  and  the  solarized  water 
are  of  great  efficiency  in  the  same  direction. 

Dr.  Babbitt  declares  that  such  violent  poisons  as  prussic  acid  and  strychnine  owe  their 
intense  force  to  the  fact  that  they  contain  a  vast  amount  of  yellow  principle,  which  is  a 
nerve  stimulant,  and  that  this  is  powerfully  combined  with  the  red  principle  which  stimulates 
the  blood.. 

On  the  lower  side  of  green  we  discover  the  stimulating  colors,  and  on  its  upper  side  the 
calming,  moderating  and  spiritualizing  colors.  Contrasting  the  red  of  fire  with  the  gold  of 
sunlight,  the  green  of  foliage  and  the  blue  of  a  clear  sky,  and  sometimes  of  peaceful  waters, 
we  can  all  realize  how  intensely  affected  we  can  be  by  the  prominent  presence  of  one  or 
other  of  these  pronounced  colors  within  our  immediate  field  of  vision. 

STYLE  OF  POWER  OF  SUBSTANCES 

Since  the  sty'e  of  power  of  a  substance  is  revealed  by  its  color,  we  can  speak  of  it  as 
a  (spectroscopically)  red,  blue  or  yellow  substance,  etc.,  and  can  summarize  as  follows: 


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Electrical 

Violet 

To  the  Nerves 

Cooling 
Soothing 

Indigo 

00 

w 

0 

and 
Antiseptic 

Blue 

To  the  Blood 

Z 

Green 

H 
C/3 

CO 

:=> 

Thermal 
Animating 

Yellow 

To  the  Nerves 

Stimulating 

Orange 

Warming 

Red 

To  the  Blood 

The  upper  half  of  the  scale  of  color  substances  are  called  Electrical,  and  are  soothing, 
antiseptic  and  cooling;  blue  to  the  blood;  violet  to  the  nerves.  Indigo  partakes  of  the 
nature  of  both  blue  and  violet  and  is  cooling  and  soothing  to  both  blood  and  nerves.  Green 
is  also  a  mixed  color,  partaking  of  the  nerve-animating  qualities  of  yellow  and  the  blood- 
cooling  properties  of  blue. 

The  lower  half  of  the  scale  of  colors  are  called  Thermal,  meaning  heating,  and  are  ani- 
mating, stimulating  and  warming :  red  to  the  blood ;  yellow  to  the  nerves.  Orange  partakes 
of  the  nature  of  both  red  and  yellow  and  is  therefore  stimulating  and  animating  to  both 
blood  and  nerves. 

Remedies  that  are  anti-febrile,  cooling,  soothing  and  anti-inflammatory,  have  blue  pre- 
dominating, while  nervines  and  heart  depressors  have  much  violet.  It  may  be  well  to  note 
here  that  most  physicians  are  not  fully  alive  to  the  value  of  this  color  key  to  the  styles  or 
powers  of  their  remedies.  When  they  become  so,  the  spectroscope  is  destined  to  become  a 
very  useful  instrument  in  building  up  a  more  scientific  Materia  Medica. 

The  effects  of  light  shining  through  glass  of  various  colors  on  vegetable  growth  is  so 
clearly  and  frequently  demonstrated,  that  no  reasonable  person  who  has  ever  witnessed  its 
marked  effects  can  possibly  doubt  the  actual  influence  of  colors  entirely  apart  from  any 
human  mental  suggestion. 


I  believe  that  unrestricted  intelligence,  including  intuition,  is  the  master  key  to  the 
heavenly  gates  of  success,  freedom,  liberty  and  joy  and  that  Nature  is  the  world's  greatest 
text  book.— E.  J.  S. 


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THE  SCIENCE  OF  KEEPING  YOUNG 

The  reader  wonders  why  some  people  die  apparently  in  full  possession  of  their  facul- 
ties in  what  should  be  their  prime  of  life — 45  to  65,  or  even  earlier — especially  stout  peo- 
ple, while  others  enjoy  life  and  "keep  young"  up  through  their  70s,  80s  and  90s,  and  still 
others  under  favorable  conditions,  pass  100  years.  In  the  Balkans,  in  the  Scandinavian 
countries,  in  Persia  and  particularly  in  California  and  Mexico,  it  is  not  uncommon  to  find 
a  few  persons  in  every  neighborhood  enjoying1  fife  much  beyond  the  century  mark. 

So  far  as  Science  is  concerned  there  seems  to  be  no  reason  for  limiting  life.  Tissue 
cells  of  animals  have  been  kept  alive  outside  any  physical  body  for  years  and  years,  so 
long  as  they  have  been  kept  clean  and  periodically  washed  of  poisons  and  nourished. 
Why  not  apply  this  common  sense  process  to  human  bodies  and  indefinitely  extend  the 
living-on  process,  for  the  sake  of  service  and  happiness?  With  the  growing  intelligence  of 
a  superior  race,  great  things  are  in  store  for  those  who  read  and  heed  the  signs  of  Nature 
and  Science.  If  cleanliness  is  Godliness,  then  it  is  strength  and  youth  and  life  to  keep  the 
cells,  the  tissues,  the  pores  and  all  the  cavities  and  passages  open  by  cleansing  and  elimi- 
nating the  obnoxious,  interfering  obstructions  to  our  life  and  progress.  Dear  concerned 
reader,  do  not  "leave  a  stone"  or  even  a  pebble  unturned  till  your  system  receives  periodi- 
cally its  necessary  and  all-imporant  house  cleaning.  Remove  the  great  cause  of 
disease — low  rate  vibrations  of  dirt  and  disease  causing  congestion — and  its  consequence, 
death,  to  this  body  loaned  to  us  by  Mother  Nature.  Be  wise,  be  clean. 

People  rust  out,  instead  of  wearing  out  or  living  on  and  on.  Some  vital  organs  "break 
down"  because  a  lot  of  absolutely  unnecessary  fat  or  diseased  (inharmonious)  obstruc- 
tions are  crowding  them  out  of  place  as  a  result  of  lack  of  knowledge  and  wisdom.  They 
deny  themselves — their  human  automobile— even  the  attention  they  give  to  a  common 
machine,  they  are  continually  watching  and  repairing.  Is  the  human  machine  less  import- 
ant than  a  factory  machine,  which,  relatively  speaking,  is  simply  a  tool?  Most  people 
make  no  effort  to  live ;  the  opposite  seems  true,  for  they  habitually  obstruct  every  avenue 
that  supplies  life  nourishment  by  thoughtless,  careless  and  amo-?  many  so-called  respect- 
able people,  unrefined  and  unclean  habits.  The  principle  underlying  "Let  there  be  light" 
and  "Let  there  be  life"  is  identical,  and  this  means,  "Let  there  be  cleanliness,  let  there 
be  purity,"  otherwise  congestion,  which  causes  obstruction  to  all  the  higher  life  endurance 
on  this  planet,  so  far  as  the  soul  of  human  beings  is  concerned. 

Have  your  physical  house  examined,  and  if  you  have  not  learned  how  to  understand 

your   "frame   of  mind"   have  it  also   analyzed   and  then  learn  to  be  your  own  teacher. 

"Know  thyself"  means  also  teach  yourself  and  heal  yourself  in  the  last  analysis.    There 


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is  nothing  within  reason  impossible  with  the  God  principle  within  us.  Knowledge  applied 
rightly  is  power,  and  power  means  that  "all  these  things  shall  be  added  to  you."  Do  not 
wait  till  Nature  has  to  talk  by  its  language  of  PAIN.  The  true  and  greatest  physician  is  the 
one  who  is  able  to  prevent  the  accident  of  errors,  also  termed  dis-ease.  High  Nature  will 
co-operate  with  you  to  keep  healthy,  strong  and  young,  for  Nature  helps  those  who  help 
themselves.  Be  warned  that  no  one  can  break  Nature's  laws  without  paying  the  penalty, 
for  it  is  a  matter  of  sowing  and  reaping,  cause  and  effect.  Avoid  the  danger  line  always, 
especially  when  overflowing  with  health  and  vitality.  So,  dear  friendly  soul,  do  not  com- 
promise with  Nature,  who  is  in  reality  your  very  best  friend,  but  "heed  the  gong." 


TO  BE  SUNFUL,  SOULFUL,  SONGFUL— 

Let  the  beauteous,  healthful  light  rays, 
The  strengthening,  helpful  light  rays, 

Enter  thy  Body,  Mind  and  Soul, 
Let  the  glorious,  Heavenly  sun  rays, 
The  cleansing,  sweetening  sun  rays, 

Enter  the  temple  of  thy  soul. — E.  J.  S. 

— -— o 

RADIO- VITANT  APPLICATORS 
(Extracts  from  F.  F.  Burdick's  Brochure) 

Few  physicians  are  to  be  found,  in  these  days  of  progress,  who  have  not  experienced 
some  of  the  splendid  rsnlts  of  Radiant  Light  and  Heat  in  combatting  pain,  relieving  local 
congestion,  and  increasing  the  nutritive  processes,  both  local  and  general 

The  purpose  of  the  Radio- Vitant  Applicators  is  to  supply  a  nearly  universal  method 
of  application,  simple  to  operate,  perfect  in  control,  light  to  handle,  and  having  proper 
thermal  insulation  for  protection  of  both  patient  and  bedding. 

Every  physician  and  nurse  knows  well  the  disadvantages  of  hot  water  bottles,  electric 
pads,  soap-stones,  etc.,  for  making  "Local  Applications,"  and  for  combatting  sub-normal 
temperatures,  and  will  welcome  the  simple,  practical  methods  outlined  in  this  brochure. 

The  Radio- Vitant  method  provides  the1  widest  range  of  Light  (Color),  Hot  Air  and 
Steam  in  the  most  convenient  and  effective  possible  manner. 

Visible  frequencies  alone  are  attuned  to  the  scale  of  animate  vibratory  impulses.  In 
other  words,  the  environment  most  favorable  to  vital  functioning  is  within  the  luminous 
media,  particularly  in  the  yellow  and  green  colors  with  their  characteristic  vibrations  in 


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both  length  and  frequency.  For  example,  the  human  eye  is  inactive — receives  no  visual 
stimulus — under  or  above  the  luminous  scale,  and  is  most  active  within  the  central  portion 
of  the  spectrum.  Departure  from  this  scale  of  harmonies  in  the  human  body  means  dis- 
ease and  finally  death.  Proper  application  of  Light  rays  tends  to  restore  the  normal 
rhythm  of  cellular  activities  in  most  diseased  conditions.  In  fact,  no  other  natural  agent 
is  so  capable  of  influencing  both  the  mental  and  physical  states  of  mankind  for  good  as  is 
Light. 

As  the  physicist  has  learned,  the  Electric  Light  is  identical  with  Sun  Light.  In  fact, 
it  is  Sun  Light  resuscitated  from  the  energy  long  stored  in  fuel.  This  latent  energy  in  coal, 
liberated  in  the  furnace  and  tranformed  in  the  dynamo,  is  flashed  forth  in  radiance  from 
the  electric  arc  or  incandescent  filament  on  its  mission  of  service  to  the  world.  In  other 
words,  the  subtle  force — that  potent  silent  process  that  tints  the  petals  of  the  lilac  and 
the  lily,  that  scents  the  rose  and  the  jasmine,  that  flavors  the  ripening  fruit  in  the  orchard, 
or  paints  the  cheek  and  brightens  the  eye  of  the  ruddy  school-girl —  is  one  and  the  same  of 
Nature's  forces,  whether  at  work  in  the  flower  garden  or  on  the  sands  of  the  seashore. 

But  while  it  is  the  same  force  at  work  in  every  case,  only  in  the  Radio-Vitant  Cab- 
inets is  it  possible  to  obtain  that  constant  control,  that  accurate  adjustment  at  all 
times  when  needed — summer  or  winter,  sunshine  or  showers." 


OUR  LIGHT  AND  COLOR  SELF 

That  which  we  call  "our-selves,"  our  physical  system  of  densely  organized  vibrations, 
represents  only  a  few  of  the  out-going  rays,  reflected  from  the  great  White  Solar  System 
connected  with  the  real  Self. 


LAW  OF  COLOR  CORRESPONDENCE 

Reader  and  student,  "Know  Thyself."  Find  your  color  chord,  which  represents  the 
realm  on  which  you  vibrate,  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  your  health  and  adding  to  your 
invisible  vapors  from  Nature's  essential  oils — of  light  colors  charged  with  ozonized  air.  It  is 
by  the  combination  of  the  trio  of  Nature,  Science  and  Mind  that  we  accomplish  the  greatest 
results  on  this  planet  or  plane  of  consciousness. 


You  cannot  paint  a  healthy,  sparkling  eye  or  a  pure,  brilliant  gem  and  add  to  its  lustre. 
— E.  J.  S. 


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THE  LIGHT  BATH  IDEA 

In  an  article  by  F.  F.  Burdick  he  says:  "All  vegetation,  in  field  and  forest,  is  quick- 
ened from  tiny  seed  and  bud  in  springtime,  to  leaf,  flower  and  fruitage  by  the  vitalizing 
rays  of  the  summer  sun.  Light  energy  is  a  vital  stimulant  to  animal  and  vegetable  cells 
alike." 

.  Mr.  Burdick  continues: 

The  question  is  often  asked,  "Why  is  the  Light  Bath  superior  to  Russian  or  Turkish 
Baths?"  Briefly  stated,  the  Light  Bath  is  superior  to  any  other  heating  bath  because, 

1 — The  Light  rays  penetrate  the  tissues  and  generate  heat  within  the  body,  stimulating 
the  sweat  glands  to  profuse  action,  dilating  the  blood  vessels  of  the  skin  and  muscles  for 
most  active  hyperemia,  with  the  temperature  of  air  surrounding  the  body  of  the  patient  (in 
a  properly  ventilated  Cabinet)  no  higher  than  the  temperature  of  the  blood. 

2 — Prolonged  general  applications  of  intensive  heat  to  the  surface  of  the  body,  in  the 
form  of  hot-dry-air  or  steam,  are  a  vital  depressant,  lowering  the  resistance  of  the  patient, 
while  in  the  ventilated  Light  Cabinet  these  evil  effects  are  avoided. 

3 — The  penetrating  Light  rays  have  the  same  relative  stimulating  and  vitalizing  effect 
upon  the  blood  stream  and  nerve  centers  that  is  everywhere  observed  from  the  action  of  the 
sun's  rays  upon  vegetation  about  us. 

The  experience  of  A.  J.  Ochsner,  M.  D.,  LL.  D.,  F.  A.  C.  S.  (Chicago),  as  related  in  a 
recent  edition  of  his  work  on  Surgery,  illustrates  this  point 

"In  a  personal  experience  with  septic  infection — the  pain  was  so  severe  that  it  seemed 
unbearable — dry  and  moist  heat  had  no  effect  upon  the  pain.  When  the  use  of  electric 
light  was  suggested  it  seemed  unlikely  that  this  could  act  differently  from  the  other  forms  of 
heat  that  had  been  employed. 

Upon  applying  the  light,  however,  the  excruciating  pain  disappeared  almost  at  once, 
and  since  this  experience  we  have  employed  the  light  treatment  in  hundreds  of  cases  of  pain 
caused  by  septic  infection,  and  quite  regularly  with  results  that  were  eminently  satisfactory, 
not  only  as  regards  the  relief  of  pain,  but  also  because  the  remedy  assists  materially  in 
reducing  the  infection." 


NECESSITY  THE  MOTHER  OF  INVENTION 

After  all,  there  is  only  one  disease,  and  the  name  of  that  is  "congestion."  If  con- 
gestion affects  the  mind,  it  is  termed  "Ignorance"  (lack  of  a  high,  normal  vibration) ;  if 
it  affects  the  physical  body,  it  is  termed  "disease"  by  the  Natural  Scientist  and  "error"  by 
the  Christian  scientist.  But  in  either  case,  it  means  "lack  of  ease,"  and  the  existence  of  an 


LIGHT   AND    COLORS 65. 

irregular,  abnormal,  unnatural  condition.  The  ordinary  so-called  "civilized"  being  is  to- 
day not  nourished  with  sufficient  sunshine.  Therefore  the  modem  scientist  has  har- 
nessed sufficient  "sun"  in  a  convenient  manner  to  serve  him  with  the  "bottled  sunshine/' 
in  order  to  bring  about  the  required  equilibrium  and  normal  poise  to  counteract  the  dis- 
eased or  erroneous  condition.  This  is  the  most  convenient  modem  method  of  admin- 
istering fight,  heat,  and  the  necessary  colors  required  for  bringing  about  a  true  state  of 
health,  or  harmony  in  The  Human  Machine.  Thus,  as  necessity  is  the  mother  of  invention 
the  Nulife  and  the  DeLuxe  electric  sunlight  bath-cabinets  are  the  most  excellent  methods  of 
using  the  radiant  light  and  heat,  with  the  colors.  If  your  practitioner  is  up  to  date  he  will 
recommend  the  healing,  preventative,  exhilarating  electric  sunlight  bath-cabinet — used 
under  his  own  orders  by  an  operator  of  established  character  or  by  instructions  for  home 
use. 


Let  there  be  Light — Abstract. 
Let  there  be  Light — Concrete. 
Light  is  composed  of  3  primary  Colors. 
Light  is  composed  of  Electric  Currents  and  Magnetic  Waves. 
Light  is  composed  of  Actinic  Healing  Rays. 
Light  is  composed  of  Thermic  Healing  Rays. 

The  three  Primary  Colors  separate  into  the  Seven  Colors  of  the  Solar  Spectrum — 
which  are  the  Rainbow  Colors — Red,  Orange,  Yellow,  Green,  Blue,  Indigo  and  Violet.- 


CHAPTER  IX 

ELECTRONS,  ATOMS  AND  MOTION   * 

Every  atom  and  electron  is  in  motion.  As  everything  is  made  up  of  these,  everything 
is  vibration  and  are  intelligently  represented  by  corresponding  sounds,  music,  tints,  shades, 
hues,  lines,  etc. ;  in  other  words,  colors. 

Everything  we  sense  has  to  do  with  color.  For  examples,  look  at  the  blue  sky,  the  hue- 
tinted  sunsets,  the  solar  spectra  rainbow,  the  Northern  Lights,  the  fields,  flowers  and  fruits, 
the  vegetables  and  grains,  the  birds,  fowl  and  fish,  the  animal  and  human  creation  as  well  as 
the  mineral  realm;  look  at  the  wearing  apparel,  the  people,  the  complexions,  the  photo- 
graphs and  pictures  in  general ;  look  at  the  confectioneries,  the  perfumes  and  extracts. 

What  is  true  of  the  visible  colors,  as  sensed  by  the  physical  eyes, — the  rate  of  light 
vibration — is  increasingly  true  of  the  invisible  world  of  things  both  below  as  well  as  above 
and  beyond  our  limited  vision. 

Sound  and  music  belong  to  the  color  realm  and  represent  many,  many  vibrations  and 
emotions ;  in  fact,  all  the  physical  and  special  senses  represent  manifestations  of  vibrations 
and  colors.  All  nature  within  our  little  human  planet  is  in  vibratory  motion. 

The  positive  current  and  tones  and  colors  flow  from  east  to  west.  The  smaller  worlds 
or  realms,  like  the  human  body,  are  relatively  and  proportionately  radio-active  with  ex- 
pressing colors. 

The  solar  plexus  is  the  great  central  and  controlling  sun,  though  the  brain  centers  of 
light  and  intelligence  are  closely  connected.  There  are  other  systems  of  suns  and  colors 
within  the  human  realm  and  myriads  of  smaller  lights  and  intelligences.  The  atomic  and 
electronic  streams  of  colors,  from  the  lowest  formed  molecules  and  cells,  represent  a  higher 
or  lower  consciousness  and  obey  the  law  of  correspondence  in  tone,  pitch  and  power  when 
called  upon  by  the  human  aggregated  and  individualized  thought  power  called  Will. 
We  can  induce  the  white  light  of  seven  colors  as  well  as  any  of  these — like  red  or  blue — 
the  murky  and  pink  red,  or  the  heavy  blue  or  light  true  blue  of  consciousness,  at  will. 


LIGHT   AND    COLORS 67 

We  are  tremendously  influenced  by  our  colors,  or  lack  of  color  vitality.  Certain  colors 
are  attracted  to  us. 

The  solar  plexus  is  where  the  color  generates  and  flows  freely.  Man  is  such  a  mingling 
of  whirling  vibrations  and  colors.  We  are  a  positive  and  negative  sea  of  color  vibrations. 
Too  deep  shades  of  vibrations  and  colors  cause  disease.  Dr.  Julia  Seton,  the  famous  author 
and  lecturer,  in  a  public  address  said :  "The  varied  colors  as  seen  in  the  flowers  represent 
harmonious  sound  of  music." 

There  is  a  stream  from  flowers,  which  are  the  prevailing  colors:  Red,  green  and  yel- 
low. The  blue  is  an  overtone  and  is  both  positive  and  negative.  Blue  is  strongly  receptive, 
and  is  by  some  even  called  the  positive. 

Pink,  violet  and  white  flow  from  north  to  south. 

The  sound  and  music  chord  of  C  has  many  tone  (color)  vibrations. 

The  chord  of  G  is  the  normal  tone  (voice)  of  some  people. 

Pink  is  an  emotional  color. 

Tuberculosis  is  an  emotional  color  dis-ease. 

Neurasthenia  is  an  emotional  color,  lack  of  ease  (dis-ease). 

Yellow  is  the  color  of  the  neurasthenic  and  the  overworked  mental  person. 

Violet  and  ultra  violet  persons  are  the  angelic  faced.  The  violet  and  u'tra  violet  rays 
are  the  highest  and  the  hardest  to  reach. 

Red  is  positive,  and  represents  vigor. 

Pink  and  blue  to  violet  are  the  great  healing  colors.  These  are  soft,  gentle  and 
"sweet."  "A  soft  answer  turneth  away  wrath." 

Violet  vibrations — inspiration,  illumination  and  aspiration. 

The  white  shades  are  of  many  colors,  for  there  are  many  shades  of  white — "yellow 
white,  crystal  white  and  "snow  white,"  etc. 

Dr.  Julia  Seton  made  the  following  remarks  to  a  public  audience  in  San  Francisco  in 
1919:  "We  should  have  white  and  color  treatments.  No  person  can  do  without  the  light 
and  color  vibrations.  The  New  Civilization  people  are  appreciatng  these  facts.  A  doc- 
tor of  Chicago  has  made  a  tremendous  success  of  the  Cabinet  light  treatments.  There  is 
a  New  Civilization  gentleman  here — Dr.  E.  J.  Stevens — who  has  a  light  and  color  thera- 
peutic institution  in  this  city.  There  is  great  benefit  to  be  derived  from  the  light  and  color 
appliances  and  cabinets,  which  I  believe  in.  The  colors  assist  our  development,  for  it  af- 
fects our  feelings  and  our  emotions,  thoughts,  words  and  all  our  actions.  Certain  colors 
for  rooms  have  a  restful  influence  on  a  patient.  Music  and  colors  are  the  great  coming  ther- 
apeutic agencies.  We  should  suit  ourselves  with  colors,  sounds  and  music." 

The  time  will  come  when  not  only  will  color  baths  be  taken  in  private  homes,  as  well 


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as  in  public  institutions  in  every  civilized  land,  particularly  in  city  residences,  but  music 
baths  will  be  used  once  or  twice  a  week,  or  oftener,  in  order  to  cleanse  inharmonious  vibra- 
tions from  the  mind  and  eliminate  cross  vibrations  that  entangle  the  souls,  and  thus  be  a 
means  to  help  maintain  the  tone  of  one's  mind  and  soul,  and  calm  and  control  the  emotions. 
Harmonious  vibrations,  such  as  music,  cleanses  the  spirit's  soul  house,  just  as  the 
highest  physical  cleansing  agents — light  and  color — cleanse  and  strengthen  the  body  and 
physical  mind.  All  these  color  agencies  maintain  the  tone  of  the  individual.  We  should 
seek  every  opportunity  for  the  use  of  the  highest  order  of  cleansing.  Besides,  music 
should  be  as  much  a  part  of  our  day's  education  and  enjoyment  as  any  other  important 
function. 


COLORS  IN  THE  HUMAN  ATMOSPHERE 

It  may  be  well  to  add  what  W.  J.  Colville,  the  noted  lecturer,  has  said  concerning  blue. 
A  "fit  of  the  blues"  is  a  very  common  expression  to  denote  despondency  of  feeling,  but  we 
also  speak  of  "true  blue,"  which  conveys  a  totally  different  suggestion.  The  blue  of  des- 
pondency may  be  called  "false  blue,"  as  it  is  a  bluish  grey  and  not  a  genuine  blue  of  any 
variety. 

Dr.  Babbitt,  who  devoted  much  time  and  thought  to  practical  investigation  as  well  as 
to  literary  research,  when  dealing  with  "Colors  and  Forces  of  the  Brain,"  using  language 
common  to  phrenology,  said  that  all  grades  of  affection  are  expressed  in  different  kinds  of 
red ;  pure  spiritual  affection  is  shown  in  beautiful  red,  but  merely  sensual  affections  display 
dingy  red.  Swedenborg's  teachings  regarding  color-symbolism  are  precisely  to  the  same 
effect.  Dr.  Babbitt  associated  Benevolence  with  a  very  beautiful  type  of  green,  Religion 
with  yellow,  Firmness  with  blue,  Self-esteem  with  purple.  The  kind  of  religious  feeling 
dominant  in  a  religious  person  must  inevitably  change  the  type  or  grade  of  yellow,  so  much 
so  that  "pure  and  undefiled"  religion  emits  a  bright  golden  radiance,  while  the  lower  forms 
of  religious  sentiment,  sometimes  selfish  and  often  mingled  with  craven  fear,  show  forth  in 
cull  and  uninviting  yellow.  Dr.  James  Rodes  Buchanan,  who  gave  much  attention  to  this 
subject,  said  that  the  blue  of  Reasoning  Powers  is  a  grade  higher  than  that  portraying  sim- 
ply firmness,  and  he  spoke  of  a  very  fine  grade  of  yellow  betokening  Veneration,  pure  and 
simple.  A  normal  nose,  he  said,  gave  forth  a  green  emanation;  lips  yellow,  with  orange 
below  them;  the  chin  emits  scarlet. 


Health  and  prosperity  represent  circulation,  and  money  in  motion  spells  circulation. 
They  say  "a  setting  hen  grows  no  feathers."    Therefore,  there  is  life  in  motion. 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 69 

LIGHT  AND  COLOR  CURES 

Physical  and  mental  diseases  are  simply  low  rates  congestions,  causing  crossed  wires 
to  temporarily  interfere  by  interrupting  the  progress  of  the  higher  thoughts  of  being.  The 
remedy  for  this  uneven,  inharmonious,  interrupted  condition  is  the  use  of  Nature's  higher 
visible  forces  of  Light  in  combination  with  the  fine,  light  and  color  forces  of  the  mind. 
These  pure  and  powerful  agents  will  clean  and  clear  out  all  the  diseases  caused  by  our  mis- 
takes or  errors  and  bring  back  a  harmonious, healthy,  right  of  way  to  our  heavenly  (evenly) 
progress.  The  primary  colors  of  red,  yellow  and  blue,  or  red,  orange,  green  and  violet,  are 
the  great  regulators  or  alteratives.  A  combination  of  all  these  colors  produces  a  perfect 
white  or  equilibrium.  The  spectrum  colors  of  the  natural  agencies  of  Light,  as  seen  by  the 
eyes  and  those  felt  by  the  mind  (thoughts)  are  more  natural  and  potent  for  an  evolving 
human  being,  than  the  use  of  the  mineral  or  even  the  vegetable  mediums,  but  perhaps 
the  masses  of  humanity  are  not  yet  prepared  or  evolved  to  the  realm  of  higher  octaves  of 
cleansing  or  healing  rays.  The  higher  rate  colors  operate  in  dispelling  disease  colors  in  the 
body,  restoring  health  by  color  potency.  Thus,  a  person  suffering  from  malarial  fever  is 
treated  with  quinine,  which  is  composed  of  blue  waves,  and  these  drive  out  the  lower  con- 
gested agents — truly  a  method  of  cleanliness  and  cure.  Even  this  form  of  administering 
blue  will  eventually  be  superseded  by  the  sun  and  mind  spectrum,  containing  the  finer  prim- 
ary colors,  which  of  course  are  preferable. 

Light,  with  its  family  of  colors,  is  not  only  the  Giart  Cleanser  and  Heavenly  Purifier, 
but  it  is  the  greatest  of  foods  for  the  nourishment  of  the  human  body,  mind  and  soul.  The 
sunlight,  as  well  as  the  Light  of  the  higher  intelligence  of  the  mind,  is  now  being  used  in 
a  remarkably  satisfactory  way  for  locating  and  diagnosing  all  manner  of  dis-ease. 


SLEEP  INDUCING  VIBRATIONS 

(1)  To  "fall  asleep,"  or  for  rejuvenating,  rec'ir.e  on  your  back,  relax  and  think  of  a 
"cream-white"  (or  light  yellow)  wall,  then  think  away  the  white  wall  and  "let  go." 

(2)  Bask  and  relax  while  on  your  back  or  side,  allowing  the  sun  to  shine  on  the 
body.    Keep  the  feet  warm. 

o 

MARVELOUS  COLOR  EXPERIMENTS 

'During  the  years  of  1917  and  1918,  the  author  made  a  number  of  experiments  on 
himself  in  treating  acidosis,  caused  by  a  lack  of  sunshine  and  exercise,  which  resulted  in 
poor  elimination.  Lack  of  the  sun's  nourishment  and  stimulation  decreased  the  necessary 
energy  required  for  the  human  machinery.  As  a  result  of  this  depleted  condition  and  a 


70  VIBRATIONS 


mental  strain,  there  was  a  deficient  amount  of  magnetism  to  lubricate  and  sooth  the  nervous 
system.  Therefore,  the  electric  acid,  acidity  of  the  stomach,  resulted  in  periodic 
attacks  of  acidosis.  Sodas  and  hot-water  drinking  failed  to  relieve  the  intense  pains,  and 
acidity,  so  while  thinking  what  next  to  do,  late  one  night,  after  returning  from  an 
Oakland  demonstrating  lecture  on  drugless  methods,  and  actually  getting  no  bene- 
fit from  soda  and  hot  water  drinking,  and  remembering  the  very  soothing  and 
healing  effects  of  light  and  heat,  and  that  inflammation  and  pain  were  asso- 
ciated with  the  low  rating  of  red,  I  tried  a  blue  light  turned  on  from  a  60  watt 
electric  globe  radiated  just  over  the  chest.  The  headache  quickly  disappeared.  The 
light  was  reflected  from  the  metal  reflector  so  as  to  cover  the  surface  of  the  neck  and  the 
thyroid  gland,  which  is  a  most  important  organ  for  controlling  the  digestive  juices  and 
functions.  The  light  blue  gave  splendid  and  immmediate  results.  The  acidity  and  pain,  as 
well  as  the  inflammation,  were  quickly  relieved.  The  acid  seemed  to  turn  into  an  alkaline 
condition  and  became  sweet  and  natural.  In  acute  or  semi-acute  cases  of  indigestion 
or  sore  throat  or  chest,  the  benefit  was  all  that  could  be  desired.  In  several  extreme  attacks 
of  acidity  of  the  stomach  the  immediate  application  of  the  blue  lights  changed  the  acid 
into  an  alkaline  condition.  When  the  mucus  membrane  is  red  and  congested,  the  higher 
hues  of  blue  act  as  a  natural  alterative  and  the  beneficial  results  seem  miraculous. 


DIAGNOSING  AND  HEALING  BY  COLORS 

Doctor  George  Starr  White  has  diagnosed  thousands  of  the  most  obscure  cases  the  doc- 
tors of  America  could  "dig  up"  for  him,  and  has  never  made  a  mistake  in  a  non-complicated 
condition.  Doctor  George  Starr  White,  the  noted  physicist,  diagnoses  disease  by  the  use  of 
Light,  Color  and  Sound  vibrations. 

Dr.  Bowers  of  New  York  says:  "Remember  that  the  light  that  elicits  the  reflex — that 
tells  what  the  disease  is — if  used  faithfully  and  correctly  for  a  period  of  time,  tends  to  cure 
the  disorder  that  caused  the  abnormal  condition.  This  is  the  hope  held  out  to  those  suffer- 
ing from  tuberculosis,  cancer,  or  the  chronic  toxemias,  which,  under  our  present  methods, 
are  most  generally  incurable." 


COLOR  BLENDING  FOR  HARMONY 

Affinities:     Red  and  Blue,  Yellow  and  Violet,  Orange  and  Indigo. 


-o- 


Cool   baths   are   for  red-blooded   persons,   while   warm   baths  are  for  blue-blooded 
persons. 


CHAPTER  X 

THE  SUPER-WOMAN  OF  PURE  COLOR  RATING 

A  truly  normal  woman  is  60  per  cent  feminine  and  40  per  cent  masculine,  total  100 
per  cent. 

The  superior  woman  must  be  God-loving,  good  natured,  refined  and  truthful.  She 
must  be  affectionate,  unselfish,  sympathetic  and  tactful,  intelligent  and  able  to  see  things 
at  a  glance.  Cheerfulness  and  humor  should  be  amongst  her  attributes,  such  qualities  help- 
ing to  lighten  the  burdens  of  life. 

She  should  attract  health  for  both  body  and  mind,  in  order  to  expel  the  old-age  disease 
and  other  negative  conditions.  She  should  cultivate  a  sunshiny  disposition,  which  will 
grow  and  blossom  marvelousJy  and  bear  fine,  serviceable  fruit.  She  should  be  useful  and 
able  to  turn  her  hand  to  anything,  and  at  the  same  time  not  neglectful  of  her  mind,  which 
she  should  provide  with  strengthening  food. 

She  must  be  patient  and  able  to  catch  the  idea  which  struggles  through  broken  expres- 
sion, by  encouraging  intuition. 

In  every  true  woman's  soul  is  a  depth  of  sweetness  and  tenderness,  which  she  must  not 
allow  to  dry  up.  The  more  it  is  used  the  more  it  wi'l  increase. 

This  true  woman  is  nobly  planned  to  warm,  to  comfort  and  command,  by  her  strong, 
sympathetic,  intuitive  influence. 

This  superior  woman  is  ever  on  the  alert  to  enjoy  a  clean,  healthy  body  and  mind;  re- 
fined in  dress.  Her  religion  shou'd  be  based  on  the  Golden  Rule,  plus  unselfish  love  toward 
all.  Her  keynote  is  "B  Natural." 

This  woman  will  always  vibrate  love,  joy  and  youth — avoiding  all  old-age  thoughts, 
words  and  deeds.  And  like  her  counter  or  complementary  part,  called  the  super-man,  she 
should  be  independently  dependent,  and  yet  passionately  enjoying  individuality  and 
freedom. 

Fond  of  the  out-of-door  life,  and  yet  loving  the  home  and  child  life,  as  well  as  fields 
and  flowers,  and  cultivating  creative  thought. 


"A  rolling  stone  gathers  no  moss,"  but  who  wishes  to  be  a  moss-back?     A  rolling 
stone  represents  energy. 


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THE  SUPER-MAN 

God's  ideal  is  now  evolving; 

With  great  forces  men  belong. 
Super-men  are  now  unfolding 

For  a  race  .  .  .  super-strong. 
Earth's  the  school-house,  Life's  the  training; 

Here  we're  dwelling  but  a  time, — 
Nature's  pupils! — And  we're  making 

Glorious  strides  on  earth  sublime. 

Life's  a  study,  Life's  a  blessing 

When  we  understand  the  same. 
Thought  inspiring,  soul  refreshing, 

We  keep  young  in  Life's  great  strain. 
Light  through  darkness  generating, 

Mists  give  way  to  strength  of  sun; 
Thus  the  Soul-rays,  penetrating 

Through  "our  clouds"  when  sorrows  come. 

Does  not  light  come  with  the  morning? — 

And  through  gray  fogs  bright  rays  shine  ?- 
Thus  the  soul-urge — Light  vibrating — 

God's  own  image — Man  divine. 
Let  all  troubles,  disappointments, 

Oppositions,  move  along; 
Count  them  problems  and  appointments — 

Friends  they  are  to  make  us  strong. 

We  are  students,  always  learning 

From  the  cosmos  realms  of  thought. 
Old  age  thoughts  ne'er  expressing, 

By  the  man  whom  God  has  wrought. 
Pluck  and  Push,  and  Perseverence, 

Stepping  stones  to  walk  UP  ON 
Ah!  it's  joy — great  joy — progressing. 

Life's  chimes  ring.     Oh!  hear  the  song! 


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Let's  be  thinking!     Let's  be  doing! 

Let  it  be  with  song  and  smile! 
For  we're  growing  while  we're  going — 

On  life's  journey,  mile  by  mile; 
It's  right  thinking  and  right  living — 

Breath  of  life — to  fight  the  wrong; 
Food  for  mind  and  Soul  inspiring, 

For  life's  work  to  keep  us  strong. 

Art  and  Science  at  our  bidding; 

Light  and  Love  to  help  us  grow; 
Music  thrills  our  very  being; 

In  Life's  feast  we  feel  the  glow; 
Why  lose  time  then,  sighing,  longing? 

Heaven  is  not  beyond  the  sun. 
Heaven  is  here,  to  us  belonging; 

It's  the  home  of  Super-man. 

E.  J.  S. 


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LIGHT,  COLOR  AND  AIR  THERAPEUTICS 

Red  fire,  hot  water  and  steam  belong  to  the  lower  rates  and  coarser  grades  of  light 
and  heat;  in  fact,  a  person  may  become  weak  and  even  ill  by  the  use  of  these  applications. 
On  the  other  hand,  the  rays  of  Sunlight,  together  with  its  balanced  colors  and  finer  heat 
rays — in  direct  contact  with  the  physical  body — pass  through  every  tissue,  entering  and 
cleansing  every  organ,  atom  and  cell,  revitalizing,  regenerating  the  psychic  and  spiritual 
forces.  Clean,  clear,  healthy  light,  with  its  color  rays,  generate  a  more  enduring  warmth 
and  strength  and  is  a  far  greater  cleanser  than  the  water  and  steam  treatments  and  baths, 
the  same  is  true  of  air  baths. 


RHYTHMIC  BREATHING  AND  COLORS 

For  persons  who  do  not  enjoy  the  natural  out  of  doors — natural  life,  too  much  cannot 
be  said  in  favor  of  the  great  benefit  that  is  to  be  derived  from  systematic  deep  breathing. 
The  introduction  of  oxygen  and  the  purifying  of  the  blood  is  more  fully  accomplished.  It 
is  natural  to  take  an  occasional  deep  breath. 

Nature's  purified  air  is  drawn  into  the  unused  cells  of  the  lungs,  expanding  and 
strengthening  those  that  may  have  been  wholly  or  partially  collapsed,  and  also  the  bron- 
chial tubes,  and  all  of  the  air  passages  to  and  in  the  lungs; thus  the  lung  capacity  has 
been  greatly  increased,  as  indicated  by  a  chest  expansion  of  several  inches  more  than  could 
be  made  before  the  inhaling  treatment  was  used.  It  also  has  a  very  beneficial  effect  upon 
the  throat  and  vital  organs,  rendering  them  stronger  and  greatly  increasing  their  capacity, 
adding  breath  coloring  to  the  speaking  and  singing  tone. 


UNBOTTLING  SUNSHINE 

Do  you  realize — 

That  all  our  troubles  may  be  good  friends  in  disguisse? 
That  our  mistakes  can  be  strong  steps  on  which  to  rise? 
That  it's  not  too  late  to  turn  from  foolish  to  wise? 
That  those  who  fail  or  fall  can  soar  to  loftier  skies? 
That  to  doubt  and  say  "I  can't"  are  poor  confessions? 
That  to  lift  our  burdens  means  to  stop  depressions? 
That  our  problems  mean  to  us,  our  rich  possessions? 
That  lack  of  ease  means  dis-ease  or  dis-app ointments? 
That  dis-appointments  may  bring  us  new  appointments? 

E.  J.  S. 


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THE  ODIC  LIGHTS  AND  COLORS 

Copy  of  a  Letter  Written  by  the  Author  to  a  Scientific  Research  Friend  at  Indio,  Calif., 

August  26,  1918. 

As  you  have  asked  me  for  more  data  on  these  strange  odic  lights  and  colors,  a  few 
points  relative  to  these  finer  forces  would  not  be  amiss,  while  our  minds  are  on  this  line  of 
thought  and  investigation. 

Odyl'ic,  or  odic  light,  is  sometimes  called  flourescent  light,  and  is  generally  connected 
or  associated  with  magnetic  waves  or  the  electric  current,  though  it  may  be  associated  with 
other  light  rays. 

It  can  be  seen  through  the  Crookes  X-ray  tubes  by  the  use  of  a  screen  to  shut  off  the 
outer  lights. 

Natural,  or  made)  up  by  a  chemical  process  substance,  of  a  crystaline  composition,  is 
now  used  for  producing  some  marvelous  results.  Tungstate  of  calcium  (or  lime),  when 
fused  in  a  furnace,  produces  at  a  certain  heat  crystals  about  the  size  of  a  pin  head,  which 
are  glued  together,  and  under  certain  conditions  produce  extraordinary  results.  (The 
X-rays  and  the  tungsten  lamps  use  this  combination.)  Thus  we  have  one  of  the  sub- 
stances for  polarization  uses  (the  polarizing  along  electronic  lines). 

Polarized  rays  are  the  methods-  of  developing  colors  by  means  of  refraction.  Glass 
prisms  of  the  highest  grade  vitreous  material  are  used  in  the  scientific  manufacture  of  the 
triangle  and  diamond-shaped  reflectors,  to  produce,  or  rather  to  reflect  the  colors,  as  they 
cross  and  recross  in  order  to  appear  on  the  surface  of  animate  and  so-called  in-animate 
things — something  like  an  aura.  Diamonds  produce  this  effect  in  a  small  way ;  in  fact,  the 
principle  is  the  same  as  using  the  ordinary  scientific  vitreous  triangle,  which  is  so  very 
much  larger.  As  the  writer  possesses  several  imported  high  grade  prismatic,  or  "pris- 
matoidal,"  cut  glasses,  of  from  two  ounces  to  half  a  pound  in  weight,  you  may  have  the 
pleasure  of  doing  a  little  research  work,  or  rather  play,  on  your  return  from  your  trip 
away  down  in  the  "desert  of  America."  I  would  like  to  enjoy  the  privilege  of  experiment- 
ing a  little  on  the  "Irdio  Oasis,"  but  can  hardly  spare  the  time  away  from  our  Research 
Studios  in  San  Francisco. 

Bear  in  mind  that  the  real  electric  color  is  blue  and  its  nature  cold  to  freezing,  and 
that  its  complementary  color  is  red;  this  is  its  natural  affinity,  and  these  colors  attract 
each  other.  This  applies  to  every  realm  of  nature  throughout  the  Universe,  whether  it  be 
in  connection  with  the  visible  or  the  invisible  world.  There  are  many  octaves  of  colors 
that  as  yet  have  not  been  seen.  We  have  splendid  reacons  to  believe  thd  same  is  true  of 
the  hues  and  shades.  All  colors  have  their  color  affinities,  or,  more  strictly  speak- 
ing, each  color  has  opposite  as  well  as  its  near  associates.  This  is  aa  true  with  the  colors 


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of  the  ode,  i.  e.,  ocfrc  colors,  as  of  any  other  color  realm;  in  fact,  in  a  deeper  and  far 
reaching  sense,  these  odic  colors  represent  greater  potentiality. 

We  are  on  the  eve  of  marvellous  discoveries  and  mighty  inventions  in  connection 
with  these  odyllic  mysterious  and  fascinating  color  forces.  Heretofore,  it  has  been  left  to 
the  poet, the  artist  and  to  the  inventor  to  enjoy  the  happy  dreamland  of  special  soul  visual- 
ization. Of  course,  others  at  times  cognize  this  spirit  of  intelligence  and  enjoy  the  varied 
colored  rays  of  inner  consciousness,  but  the  great  mass  of  human  beings  see  slight  glim- 
merings (if  they  observe  at  all)  of  those  finer  colors  and  hues;  some  are  interested,  and  a 
few  students  of  Nature  are  even  alive  to  the  potential  possibilities,  and  a  very  few  advanced 
thinkers  are  commencing  to  realize  that  these  color  forces  may  be  unfolded,  developed 
and  harnessed  sometime  for  "every-day  use"  for  light  and  power. 

For  Vol.  II  of  "Vibrations,  Their  Principles;  Light  and  Color,  Their  Uses,"  the  author 
is  gathering  together  from  his  own  experiences  and  research  work,  perhaps  more  data, 
along  the  odic  color  line,  than  can  be  found  in  any  one  book. 


ODIC-ACTIVITY  RAYS 

The  odic -activity  ray,  more  powerful  than  the  X-ray  or  the)  radium  ray,  is  to  com- 
pletely conquer  the  air. 

The  giant  sky  liner,  safe  as  any  conveyance  ever  perfected,  equal  in  luxury  and  com- 
fort to  the  palatial  greyhounds  of  the  ocean  lanes,  is  a  posiibilty  and  probability  of  the 
near  future. 

These  were  the  announcements  made  by  Prof.  Edgar  L.  Hollingshead,  scientist  of 
Pasadena,  in  an  exclusive  interview  in  May,  1921. 

For,  he  declares,  this  powerful  ray  will  make  metals  so  light  that  a  huge  steel  sky  ship 
would  become  light  as  a  bubble. 

Not  only  this,  but  the  odic-activity  ray,  Prof.  Hollingshead  claims,  will  take  the  place 
of  radium,  valued  at  $120,000  a  gram,  and  revolutionize  the  scientific  world  in  the  treat- 
ment of  certain  diseases. 

And  the  cost  of  Lightening  metals,  of  using  the  rays  for  medical  purposes,  is  so  min- 
ute as  to  be  almost  negligible. 

The  odic-activity  ray,  according  to  Prof.  Hollingshead,  so  far  has  successfully 
changed  the  weight  of  metal  over  100  times  in  as  many  tests;  it  has  caused  hard  clay  to 
explode  the  instant  the  ray  touched  it;  rock,  opaque  to  the  eye,  has  been  made  transparent 
and  by  means  of  the  ray,  an  actual  photograph  has  been  taken  through  a  solid  sheet  of 
lead.  One  application  of  the  ray  on  metal  has  caused  it  to  become  permanently  cold — be- 


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yond  the  possibility  of  ever  becoming  heated.    And  it  has  instantly  changed  water  Into 
its  primary  gases — hydrogen  and  oxygen. 

But  of  all  uses  of  the  ray,  including  treatment  for  medical  purposes,  that  of  light- 
ening metals  is  the  greatest,  and  will  revolutionize  the  traffic  of  the  world. 


HARNESSING  THE  SUN-LIGHT  FOR  EFFICIENCY 
Compiled  by  the  Author  and  With  Compliments  to  His  Contemporary,  F.  F.  Burdick. 

"Your  EFFICIENCY  PROGRAMME  will  be  the  most  delightful  experience  you  have 
ever  enjoyed.  It  will  be  equal  to  a  mid-summer  outing  to  your  over-worked  physical  re- 
sources, and  far  more  effective  in  its  results.  The  LIGHT  BATH  is  like  fresh  air  and  sun- 
shine to  jaded  nerves,  fatigued  muscles  and  poisoned  blood.  It  brings  the  rest  and  recuper- 
ation, the  tonic  and  exhilaration  of  the  sea-side  sunbath  every  day  in  the  year — a  continu- 
ous vacation. 

Light  (sunshine)  is  the  great  germ  destroyer,  and  when  the  electric  light  rays  shine 
directly  upon  the  nude  body,  it  kills  not  only  the  germs  without  but  the  germs  within.  Light 
with  its  warming,  healing  powers  opens  the  pores  of  the  mind  as  well  as  of  the  body  it 
cleanses  not  only  the  blood,  but  the  heart  it  pulses  through.  The  sun  must  be  focused 
strongly  enough  on  the  body  to  bring  out  the  poisons,  to  let  in  the  vitalizing  fight 
to  re-vivify  and  energize;  not  only  to  cure  disease,  but  to  maintain  that  equilibrium  of 
body,  mind  and  heart  which  we  call  NORMAL  POISE. 

But  our  twentieth  century  civilization  prohibits  this.  We  are  much  too  busy  to  take 
an  hour  off  for  the  daily  sunbath,  and  there  is  no  place  to  take  it  if  we  had  the  time.  But 
the  need — the  imperative  need — of  sufficient  sunshine  to  bring1  on  a  thorough  sweat  has 
not  passed  along  with  our  modern  habits.  The  question  is,  if  we  cannot  get  it  in  the  ordi- 
nary way,  what  shall  we  do? 

Electric  light  bottled  sunshine  is  the  answer,  for  this  is  simply  sunshine  that  has 
been  stored  for  many  centuries  in  the  coal  fields,  waiting  for  your  call  and  mine. 
Chemically,  it  is  practically  the  same  as  sunlight,  so  nearly  so  that  it  has  been  successfully 
used  to  force  the  growth  of  plants. 

With  an  Electric  Light  Bath  Cabinet  in  your  home  you  can  get  well  and  keep  well. 
It  is  always  ready  without  preparation.  Enter  the  Cabinet,  turn  the  switch,  and  sit  quietly 
enjoying  the  luxury  of  the  sunshine  sweat.  Your  head  is  out  and  you  breathe  in  the  cool, 
fresh  air.  The  vitalizing  Light  rays  brighten  the  eye,  soften  and  beautify  the  skin  of  the 
fair  sex  and  "put  spring  in  the  heel." 

The  results  are  immediate.  The  first  bath  clears  the  brain,  relieves  nerve  and  muscle 
tension,  and  stimulates  the  vital  organs  to  increased  activity.  Soon  all  feelings  of  langour 


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disappear,  the  sleep  is  refreshing,  the  digestion  normal,  and  life  takes  on  a  new  meaning — 
the  real  joy  of  living. 

The  family  physician  is  always  glad  to  recommend  the  Light  Bath  for  maladies  com- 
mon to  every  home — the  same  as  in  the  sanitarium  or  health  institution.  The  Light  Baths 
develop  the  resisting  powers  of  the  body,  and  thereby  prevent  disease." 


A  WORD  OF  APPRECIATION 

As  the  latest  associate  of  Dr.  E.  J.  Stevens'  Research  Institute,  I  am  glad  to  add  a  word 
of  appreciation.  From  Scandinavia,  where  I  studied  in  Stockholm,  Christiania  and  Copen- 
hagen, my  intuition  led  me  through  New  York,  Chicago,  Battle  Creek  and  Kirksville — the 
home  of  Osteopathy — to  E.  J.  Stevens'  Light  and  Color  Institute  in  San  Francisco.  In  all 
my  researches  I  have  found  no  higher  ideas  in  modern  therapeutics  than  Dr.  Stevens'  meth- 
ods. He  not  only  realizes,  but  carries  into  practice,  the  combination  of  the  mental,  physical, 
and  spiritual  principles,  and  it  is  upon  this  triangle  that  all  healing  rests. 

GUDRUN  FRIIS-HOLM,  D.  0.,  M.  D. 

Gudrun  Friis-Holm,  M.  D.,  D.  0.,  the  1921  attendant-consultant  physician  of  the  E.  J. 
Stevens  Light  and  Color  Institute,  and  Dr.  Howard  G.  Ellis,  in  charge  of  the  mens'  Electro- 
Mechano  departments,  have  directly  and  co-operatively,  with  other  members  of  our  faculty 
staff  rendered  invaluable  aid  in  demonstrating  the  marvelous  and  seemingly  miraculous 
uses  of  the  colored  lights  and  the  bottled  sun-light  applications  for  the  different  classes  of 
erroneous,  inharmonious  physical  and  mental  conditions,  termed  "disease"  dis-ease  (cor- 
rectly meaning  lack  of  ease). 


"FLASHLIGHTS"  BY  THE  AUTHOR. 

Those  who  believe  and  receive,  can  conceive  and  achieve. 

This  is  the  golden  age  of  opportunity  and  of  constructive  optimism. 

A  current  of  thought  is  a  stream  of  passing  electrons.  Highly  evolved  electrons  pro- 
duce harmonious  waves,  as  in  the  case  of  ultra-violet,  actinic  X-rays,  and  so  on  up  through 
the  invisible  color-realms.  The  higher  the  vibration!  frequency  the  shorter  and  more 
potential  the  wave  length. 

All  expressions  of  art,  including  languages,  are  thought  vibrations  and  inventions. 
Even  reflections  in  the  mind  and  in  a  material  sense — those  which  we  observe  in  the  water 
— originate  in  the  soul,  and  when  manifested  are  registered  on  the  ether,  some  of  which 
are  observable ;  while  the  deeper,  finer  thought  vibrations  aro  simply  discernible  things. 


CHAPTER  XI 

FOURTH  DIMENSION  AND  EINSTEIN'S  THEORY  OF  RELATIVITY  OF  TIME, 

SPACE  AND  LINES 

Taken  from  "The  World's  Almanac" 

It  is  Dr.  Einstein  who  has  brought  the  fourth  dimension  into  physics  as  a  vital  fact. 
In  addition  to  length,  breadth  and  height  of  the  old  order,  one  now  takes  account  of  the 
time-dimension  as  the  new  fourth  coordinate.  Time  and  space  are  no  longer  treated  as 
independent.  The  relativist  claims  that  we  can  know  nothing  of  absolute  space  in  the 
Euclidean  sense  of  a  line  that  goes  on  and  on  straight  into  eternity  and  infinity.  The 
material  universe  moves  in  perfect  cycles;  the  system  of  which  we  are  a  part  move  through 
a  cycle  of  sixteen  million  light-years;  at  the  end  of  that  period  it  recommences  its  long 
journey  and,  like  the  recurring  decimal,  repeats  it  over  and  over. 

Energy  is  identical  with  mass;  energy  may  be  said  to  create  this  material  world;  and 
the  doctrine  of  conservation  of  energy  becomes  merged  in  the  doctrine  of  conservation  of 
mass.  It  is  here  that  the  relativist  seems  most  surely  to  have  planted  his  feet  on  solid 
ground.  He  has  the  undoubted  facts  about  electrons  in  his  support.  Proceeding  from 
the  dictum  is  identical  with  latent  energy,  he  formulates  a  new  law  that  mass  is  not  invari- 
able, that  mass  actually  receives  an  increment  that  varies  with  the  square  of  the  ratio  of 
the  body's  velocity  of  light.  In  astronomy  this  strange  doctrine  has  already  been  decis- 
ively confirmed.  The  most  interesting  thing  about  relativity  is  that  there  is  so  much  in 
Nature  to  confirm  it. 

Some  account  is  here  given  of  the  three  great  astronomical  tests  of  the  theory;  of 
these  the  first  two  have  been  satisfactorily  met:  (1)  The  authors  of  accepted  astronomical 
tables  have  been  obliged  to  add  an  arbitrary  constant,  43  minutes,  to  the  centennial  motion 
of  Mercury's  perihelion  in  order  to  secure  agreement  between  the  old  Newtonian  theory 
and  telescopic  observation.  This  discrepancy  was  a  hopeless  puzzle  till  Einstein  an- 
nounced the  law  of  mass  varying  with  velocity  and  computed  from  this  law  a  correction 
of  42  minutes,  or  within  one  second  of  the  true.  Mercury  attains  a  velocity  of  thirty-five 
miles  per  second  and  is  by  far  the  most  rapidly  moving  body  in  the  solar  system.  (2)  Ein- 
stein predicted  that  if  stars  be  observed  when  they  are  close  to  the  sun's  limb,  the  light  com- 


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ing  from  the  stars  to  the  earth  would  be  bent  by  the  gravitational  pull  of  the  sun;  stars 
at  the  limb  would  appear  displaced  outwardly  from  the  sun  by  1.75  minutes;  stars  some 
distance  away  from  the  limb  would  be  displaced  inversely  as  the  distance  from  the  centre 
of  the  sun's  disk.  Such  observations  can  be  made  only  at  the  time  of  a  total  solar  eclipse. 
Einstein's  success  in  solving  the  problem  of  Mercury  had  greatly  interested  British  astrono- 
mers. The  prediction  as  to  the  bending  of  light  was  in  the  nature  of  a  challenge,  since  it 
presented  si  clear-cut  issue.  The  Newtonian  law  of  gravitation  led  one  to  expect  a  dis- 
placement of  0.87  minutes.  Einstein  predicted  twice  as  much  or  1.75  minutes. 

Two  astronomical  expeditions  went  from  England  to  observe  the  total  eclipse  of 
May  29,  1919,  one  to  Sobrai,  in  Brazil,  the  other  to  Principe,  in  the  Gulf  of  Guinea.  The 
one  expedition  secured  1.98  minutes  as  the  result;  the  other  1.61  minutes;  both  are  very 
strongly  confirmatory  of  Einstein.  (3)  In  an  intense  gravitational  field  like  that  of  the  sun 
all  lines  of  the  spectrum  should  be  displaced  to  the  red.  This  displacement  has  not  yet 
been  found. 


THE  NOURISHING  SUNSHINE 

In  Volume  IV  of  the  "Pharmacal  Advance''  the  following  statement  is  made  under  the 
heading,  "Is  Sunshine  a  Food?": 

"It  is  remembered  that  in  'Gulliver's  Travels"  there  is  depicted  a  race  who  were  so  for- 
tunate as  to  possess  professors  bent  upon  the  exquisite  task  of  extracting  sunshine  from 
cucumbers,  which,  after  all,  is  what  most  of  us  are  doing  when  we  utilize  the  sun's  rays  by 
consuming  the  fruits  and  vegetables,  which  are  the  storehouses  of  the  sun's  heat. 

Fabre  in  his  work,  'The  Life  of  the  Spider,"  makes  the  following  observation  upon  the 
species  known  as  the  Narbonne  Lycosa,  in  which  there  occurs  another  form  of  this  process, 
sunlight  being  the  only  'food'  consumed  by  the  young  of  this  species  during  the  first  few 
months  of  their  existence.  Let  us  briefly  retell  this  interesting  zoological  episode. 

When  the  Lycosa's  brood  are  hatched,  the  tiny  creatures,  to  the  number  of  many 
scores  or  even  hundreds  swarm  upon  the  mother's  back,  and  if  there  be  considerable  press- 
ure upon  the  available  space,  they  may  cover  nearly  the  whole  of  the  body,  though  the  eyes 
of  the  mother  are  invariably  left  uncovered.  The  young  Lycosa  are  agile  and  even  acrobatic 
in  a  marked  degree.  As  the  mother  moves  about,  numbers  of  the  little  ones  are  shaken  or 
otherwise  detached  from  their  lofty  perch,  whereupon  they  race  after  their  parent,  and  with 
indescribable  ease  scale  her  legs,  and  once  more  ensconce  themselves  in  some  unstable  posi- 
tion among  their  sisters  and  brothers.  For  a  period  of  something  like  six  months  the  wi'l- 
ing  beast  of  burden  carries  about  her  family  until,  now  beyond  the  need  of  apron  strings, 
they  leave  the  parental  lodgement  to  fend  for  themselves.  We  have  seen  the  Lycosa's 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 81 

young  are  extremely  active  and  agile.  They  are  racing  and  scrambling  about  incessantly. 
Now,  so  long  as  their  dwelling-place  is  the  mother's  back,  that  is  for  the  first  six  months  of 
their  life,  two  remarkable  circumstances  are  to  be  observed.  First,  they  do  not  grow. 
When  they  leave  the  maternal  whereabouts  to  carve  out  a  career  for  themselves  they  are  no 
bigger — they  are  indeed  slightly  smaller — than  when  they  were  born.  Second,  and  more 
remarkable  still,  during  the  whole  of  the  period,  about  six  months,  remember— of  their 
proximity  to  the  parent's  person,  they  consume  no  food.  There  can  be  no  doubt  as  to  these 
extraordinary  facts.  The  closest  observations,  and  the  most  exacting  experiments  that  can 
be  devised  only  confirm  these  incredible  findings.  There  is  no  possibility,  for  example,  that 
they  imbibe  nourishing  juices  exuded  from  the  mother's  pores.  You  may  rule  out  every 
such  imagined  possibility,  and  accept  as  an  established  fact  an  absolute  fast  extending  from 
birth  until  the  time  of  leaving  the  mother  at  the  age  of  six  or  even  seven  months.  Consider 
this  fact  in  conjunction  with  the  first,  namely,  the  absence  of  growth.  Having  no  new 
tissue  to  form  the  only  'food'  they  require  is  such  as  shall  be  expended  in  the  production  of 
that  energy  which,  as  we  have  seen,  is  so  freely  dissipated  in  their  constant  climbings  and 
racings  to  and  fro.  Fabre's  hypothesis  is  that  such  energy  is  supplied  by  the  sun's  rays,  and 
that  the  young  of  the  Lycosa  possess  the  rare  power  of  directly  converting  those  rays. 

If  this  is  true  for  one  species,  it  would  seem  that  sunshine  gives  to  us  something  more 
than  light  and  heat. 


MUSIC  BATHS 

Take  a  music  bath  once  or  twice  a  week  for  a  few  seasons.  You  will  find  it  is  to  the 
sou!  what  a  bath  is  to  the  body.  Music  elevates  and  tends  to  maintain  the  tone  of  one's 
mind.  Seek,  therefore,  every  clean  opportunity  for  hearing  it.  Purchase  some  kind  of  an 
instrument  for  the  home  and  see  that  its  beneficent  harmonies  are  often  heard.  Let  music 
be  as  much  a  part  of  a  day's  routine  as  eating  or  reading  or  working. — Dr.  Oliver  Wendell 
Holmes. 


ATOMS  AND  ELECTRONS. 

Atoms  are  300  millionth  part  of  an  inch  in  size,  and  there  are  2000  electrons  in  the 
smallest  of  atoms  of  the  hydrogen,  the  smallest  ultra-microscopic  infinitessimal  residue 
of  anything. 


Music  to  the  mind  is  as  air  to  the  body.  — Plato. 


82  VIBRATIONS 


REALIZATION 

1. 

When  thy  thoughts  come  forth  in  truth,  love  and  power 

In  trial  and  tribulation, 
Dos't  thou  not  know,  dear  soul,  it's  thy  glorious  hour 

Of  a  conscious  realization? 

2. 
When  to  hear  and  heed  the  soul's  still  small  voice 

May  mean  thy  transformation; 
Then  treat  all  deep  thoughts  as  thy  guests  of  choice 

And  conscious  realization. 

3. 

Be  silent,  and  list  to  that  voice  within — 
The  voice  of  consecration; 
For  to  feel  and  unfold  new  thoughts — to  win — 
Is  a  conscious  realization. 

4. 

When  thou  cans't  see,  and  feel  and  serve  above 

Mere  duty's  expectation, 
And  act  from  faith,  and  joy,  and  purest  love — 

This  is  divine  realization. 

5. 
To  live  the  life  of  joy,  and  youth,  and  health 

Without  a  limitation, 
And  create  high  thoughts  from  thy  soul's  great  wealth, 

Is  a  supreme  realization. 

6. 
0!   'tis  great  to  know,  and  know  that  we  know 

The  soul's  aspiration; 
And  to  reap  within  us  the  thought  once  sown; 

'Tis  a  conscious  realization. 


LIGHT   AND   COLORS 83 

7. 
When  thy  golden  thread  of  high  thoughts  are  spun 

Into  loving  incarnation, 
Dos't  thou  see  thy  soul's  brightest  rays  of  sun 

In  a  divine  realization? 

8. 
When  the  soul's  trysting  time  for  thee  has  come, 

In  the  spirit's  visitation, 

Speak  words  of  truth  and  love  for  victories  won 
Through  a  Divine  realization. 

E.  J.  Stevens. 


SENSE  VIBRATIONS 

Through  the  law  of  development,  we  can  register  more  and  more  vibrations.  At  pres- 
ent the  average  for  the  race  consciousness  for  Sound  is  fourteen  octaves;  Taste  averages 
several  octaves ;  Smell  averages  several  octaves.  Some  human  beings  can  see  Tone  and  hear 
Colors.  Then  there  is  the  registering  by  Touch  for  distinguishing  Colors.  While  all  Colors 
possess  their  positives  and  negatives,  black  is  the  combination  of  all  the  negatives  and  the 
absorption  of  all  the  colors.  White  is  the  universally  preferred  color  combination  for  it 
expresses  a  higher  form  of  vibration.  All  colors  that  glow  are  positive. 


ASTRAL  AND  ODIC  FORCES 

Abiding  within  your  physical  body,  and  related  to  your  mental  body,  are  strange 
races  of  beings,  connected  with  the  astral  world.  What,  for  example,  causes  the  beating 
of  your  heart  and  the  pumping  of  your  blood?  Your  stomach  and  liver  perform  their  func- 
tions, you  say  "automatically."  What  causes  the  breath  of  life  to  move  in  and  out  mysteri- 
ously? Get  acquainted  with  the  astral-psychic  and  odic  forces,  and  learn  they  control 
every  organ,  every  internal  as  well  as  external  sense  "far  inside  your  body,  where  now  your 
thoughts  seldom  venture." 

Amazing  facts  relative  to  forms,  sound,  light,  colors  and  harmonious  success  are  ex- 
plained in  Vol.  II  of  "Vibrations,  Their  Principles;  Colors,  Their  Uses,"  now  in  preparation. 


The  light  of  knowledge  is  philosophic,   and  little,  narrow,  restricted  knowledge  is 
bigotted  and  hateful. — R.  G.  Ingersoll. 


84  VIBRATIONS 


SLEEP  AND  REST 

The  author  recently  discovered  by  actual  experimentation  upon  himself  and  then  with 
a  student  by  the  name  of  J.  F.  Lynas,  that  when  the  nervous  system  is  in  a  depleted  condi- 
tion the  reclining  position  of  the  body  elevated  several  feet  above  the  floor  surface,  with 
the  head  and  feet  running  north  and  south,  brought  a  remarkably  satisfactory  result,  par- 
ticularly when  there  was  a  complete  relaxation  of  body  and  mind.  The  non-tension  of 
conscious  brain-thought,  when  reclining,  as  stated  above,  brought  undisturbed  and  restful 
sleep. 

It  is  well  to  realize  that  a  current  of  air  passing  through  long,  straight  sea-island  cotton 
is  unobstructed  and  easily  inhaled,  whereas  the  short,  choppy  variety,  as  sold  in  drug  stores 
of  the  hospital  brand,  is  unsatisfactory  as  a  vehicle  for  carrying  the  air  current 

The  principles  as  described  above  are  also  truly  demonstrated  when  the  line  of  least 
resistance  is  followed  out  in  relation  to  the  currents  of  life-renewing  forces,  when  we  place 
our  inner  or  greater  selves  in  tune  with  the  harmonious  rules  of  Mother  Nature. 

Another  important  recipe  for  putting  a  person  at  ease,  as  a  preventive  remedy  to 
dis-ease,  is  going  into  repose,  or  what  is  less  appropriately  termed  "going  into  the  silence." 
The  latter  involves  a  negative  condition,  whereas  repose  involves  a  control  and  poise  of  the 
outer  and  inner  forces.  The  formula  is  to  focus  the  highest  colored  spiritual  forces  of  the 
blue-to-violet  triad  upon  the  great  brain  centers  of  life,  like  the  solar  plexus,  the  thyroid  and 
the  pelvic  brains,  and  suggest — if  not  advise — these  auxiliary  centers  to  co-operate  in  a 
quiet,inspirational  way  with  the  upper  cranial  brain  of  conscious  thought  Great  results 
will  follow  this  very  early  morning  practice,  which  should  again  be  experienced  at  least  once 
during  the  day  time  or  a  few  minutes  the  last  thing  before  retiring  at  night.  We  may  go 
still  further  by  lovingly  requesting  each  vital  organ  and  system,  especially  those  negative 
conditions  (error,  inharmony,  dis-ease,  which  involve  twisting  and  short-circuiting 
vibrations)  to  co-operate  in  moving  a  little  higher  toward  the  brighter  colors  of  clean, 
strong  thought  Thus  we  can  use  the  central  light  of  intelligence,  located  at  the  solar 
plexus  and  reaching  up  to  the  top  of  the  brain,  after  the  fashion  of  a  lighthouse  station. 


ASTRAL  AND  ODIC  FORCES 

The  purest  and  most  beneficial  magnetism  is  that  which  comes  from  the  spiritual 
source,  flowing  naturally  through  the  mental  and  loving  natures,  manifesting  itself  through 
a  responsive  physical  nature  in  sympathy  or  tune  with  its  spiritual  source — which,  in  the 
last  analysis,  is  the  source  of  all  magnetism. 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 85_ 

MOTION  AND  MUSIC 

Before  Mother  Eve's  enchanting  form  and  musical  voice  attracted  her  elder  partner; 
long  before  the  soaring  sea  gulls  sang,  while  kissing  the  surface  of  the  rolling  ocean;  long 
before  the  curtain  of  thought  was  drawn  upon  our  young  planet's  stage  of  action;  and,  I 
reckon,  long,  long  before  the  twinkling  stars  of  our  solar  system  held  their  first  concert 
around  our  new  moon;  away  back  before  the  grey  hairs  appeared  upon  the  hoary  head 
of  Father  Time,  the  Love  Nature  of  the  great  Spirit  of  Intelligence  created  the  rhythm  of 
life  by  implanting  the  color  seeds  of  motion  and  music  in  the  soul  of  alt  things.  Music 
comes  from  the  soul,  and  love  is  its  nature.  We  hear  it  through  the  gentle  falling  rain; 
we  hear  it  through  the  great  ocean  waves ;  we  hear  it  from  the  tones  of  the  wind  whistling 
through  the  pines ;  we  hear  it  through  the  rippling  streams  as  well  as  from  the  surging  surf 
and  in  the  the  peals  of  thunder;  we  hear  music  in  the  cooing  of  the  dove  as  well  as  in  the 
cackling  of  the  mother  hen.  We  hear  it  from  a  thousand  musical  instruments  as  well  as 
from  the  nature-formed  crystaline  cave  formation,  for  I  heard  its  melodious  tones  of 
"Home,  Sweet  Home"  in  the  world-famed  crystaline  pipe  organ  at  Luray  Caverns.  I  heard 
it  in  the  great  cathedrals  of  Europe.  Who  has  not  heard  it  in  the  laughter  of  children? 
I  have  heard  it  in  the  melodious  songs  of  our  Southern  pickaninnies ;  I  have  heard  it  in  the 
whip-poor  will,  the  meadow  lark,  the  cricket  and  the  buzzing  of  bees ;  also  the  tenor  tones 
of  gentle  lambs  and  the  basso  calls  of  the  lion  and  the  ox.  From  the  tiny  reeds  and  jews- 
harps  of  school-boy  days  as  well  as  from  the  sweet  singer  of  Israel's  harp,  the  air  vibrates 
with  the  tones  of  music.  The  human  soul  is  an  organ  of  a  myriad  notes.  The  man  who 
has  not  music  developed  is  unnatural,  Skakespeare  says ;  "he  is  fit  for  treason  and  spoils." 
Pope  says  "Music  the  fiercest  grief  can  charm,  music  can  soften  pain."  Without  the  music 
of  love,  there  would  be  no  Romeos  and  Juliets,  for  this  charming  vibration  of  music  cheers 
the  human,  tames  the  animal  and  brings  peace  and  joy  to  the  weary  soul.  Let  us,  dear 
reader,  keep  in  tune  with  the  rhythm  of  the  spheres. 


RADIUM,  THE  GREAT  RADIO-ACTIVE  SUBSTANCE. 

It  is  the  product  of  its  parent  substance,  uranium.  Radium  is  ordinarily  obtained, 
says  the  Geological  Survey,  "from  the  ores  of  hydrate  sulphate,  chloride  or  bromide." 
These  white  substances  are  in  appearance  similar  to  "common  salt"  or  chalk.  The  author 
possesses  a  very  small  tube  of  this  radio-active  substance. 


What  makes  the  red  sunsets?    The  red  rays  being  the  slowest  moving  bright  colors, 
they  disappear  the  last. 


86  VIBRATIONS 


PRIMARY  COLORS 

The  colors  of  the  spectrum  are  given  as  seven — violet,  indigo,  blue,  green,  yellow, 
orange,  red.  These  are  frequently  called  primary  colors,  but  in  a  stricter  sense  the  primary 
octave  colors  are  three  in  number,  red,  green  and  blue.  These  three  colors  cannot  be 
resolved  into  any  others,  while  a  yellow  ray,  for  instance,  can  be  resolved  into  red  and 
green,  or  can  be  produced  by  mingling  a  red  and  green  light,  consequently  red  is  not  now 
regarded  by  scientific  men  as  a  primary  color.  Inasmuch  as  a  yellow  and  blue  pigment 
will  always  produce  green  when  mixed,  red,  yellow  and  blue  may  still  be  regarded  in  a 
sense  as  primary  colors.  In  a  scientific  sense  white  and  black  are  not  considered  colors, 
in  short,  there  are  three  primary  colors  and  seven  colors  in  the  spectrum. 


MENTAL  COLOR  TREATMENT 

"Mental  treatment  of  the  right  sort  is  always  beneficial  and  it  can  certainly  greatly  aug- 
ment the  good  results  accruing  from  a  judicious  employment  of  light  and  color;  but  this 
fact  in  no  way  invalidates  the  unimpeachable  testimony  of  scientific  experimentalists  to  the 
actual  value  of  chromopathic  treatment.  It  is  very  important  to  always  bear  in  mind  that 
the  colors  employed  must  be  agreeable  to  patients  or  the  best  results  will  not  follow  their 
employment,  because  the  human  mind  always  largely  influences  results." 


LIFE  AND  RELATIVITY 

The  "little"  atom  world  is  within  its  mighty  cell,  and  within  the  encircling  world-atom 
are  thousands  of  electrons  moving  at  relatively  great  distances  apart  in  an  amazingly  intelli- 
gent manner,  representing  life's  divine  forces  as  individualizing  and  manifesting  in  cell 
intelligence.  Life  must  surely  be  the  intelligent  dance  of  the  electrons. 


GREEN  LEAVES  AND  GRASSES 

Grass  and  leaves  are  green  because  of  their  chlorophyl,  which  has  the  property  of 
absorbing  red  rays  and  of  reflecting  the  yellow  and  blue,  which  mixes  and  produces  green. 

o 

VIBRATIONS  OF  LIGHT 

Think  love,  eat  love,  drink  love,  breathe  love,  feel  love,  and  be  love ;  for  it  is  the  ori- 
gin, the  source  and  substance  of  all  Life,  and  Light  and  Color. 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 87 

WORLD'S  FAIR  RECOGNITION 

San  Francisco,  Calif.,  Jan.  2,  1916. 
E.  J.  Stevens,  M.  S.,  Ph.  D., 

Stevens  Health  Inventions  Co. 

Pacific  Coast  Headquarters,  212  Stockton  Street,  City. 
Dear  Dr.  Stevens: — 

Now  that  the  Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition  has  closed  its  gates,  I  person- 
ally wish  to  express  to  you  how  grateful  I  am  at  having  your  -Company  as  an  exhibitor. 
Your  splendid  exhibit  has  proven  a  source  of  interest  and  benefit  to  thousands  of  visitors, 
and  has  materially  aided  in  the  great  success  this  Exposition  has  enjoyed. 

The  interest  manifested  in  your  display  which  we  have  had  the  honor  to  house  in 
this  Palace,  has  brought  many  flattering  remarks,  and  it  is  firms  like  yours  that  have  made 
possible  the  wonderful  success  of  the  Department  of  Liberal  Arts. 

Permit  me  to  further  express  my  warm  appreciation  of  the  courteous  manner  in 
which  your  exhibit  has  been  conducted,  which  is  a  credit  not  only  to  your  manager  and 
staff  of  nurses,  but  also  to  the  foresight  and  judgment  which  first  prompted  you  to  exhibit 
at  the  Exposition. 

Wishing  you  continued  success, 

Yours  truly, 

(Signed)  THEODORE  HARDEE, 

Chief  of  Liberal  Arts. 

N.  B. — This  letter  was  followed  by  a  handsomely  engraved  diploma,  signed  by  Presi- 
dent Moore  and  his  staff,  accompanied  by  an  engraved  gold  medal  awarded  for  "Personal 
Services  Rendered,"  in  daily  lecturing,  treating  and  healing  thousands  of  people  gratui- 
tously for  six  months.  This  was  quite  distinct  from  the  fifteen  highest  medal  awards  for 
the  fifteen  Stevens  Scientific  and  Health  Inventions.  A  staff  of  seven  nurse  aids  were  en- 
gaged daily  at  our  free  clinics  given  at  this  exhibit,  and  where  balsam  supplies  were  served 
out.  Three  hundred  lectures  were  delivered  on  (he  Psychology  of  Health,  Beauty  and 
Happiness  by  the  author. 


THE  BLUE  SKY,  OCEAN  AND  LAKES 

The  white  sun-light  falls  upon  the  earth  and  is  reflected  back  again  to  the  sun;  as  it 
penetrates  the  atmosphere  portions  of  it  are  again  returned  to  the  earth.  A  polarization 
of  light  is  produced  by  this  double  reflection,  which  imparts  to  our  vison  the  motion  repre- 
sented as  blue.  The  ocean  and  lakes  are  blue  because  of  their  reflecting  nature. 


88 


VIBRATIONS 


"LET  THERE  BE  LIGHT" 


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including  ffluman 


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A  PROFESSIONAL  EVIDENCE  OF  KNOWLEDGE  AND  EFFICIENCY 

The  above  is  a  fac-simile,  in  miniature  form,  of  the  diploma  issued  to  the  students  of 
the  E.  J.  Stevens  Light  and  Color  Institute  and  Research  Studios  of  San  Francisco,  Calif., 
who  complete  the  prescribed  course  and  are  competent  to  practice  the  art  of  Color  Appli- 
cations, Zone  Therapeutics,  and  other  Natural  Methods. 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 89 

SIXTEEN  QUALIFICATIONS 

For  E.  J.  Stevens  Issuing  a  Certificate  or  Diploma  to  Special  Course  Students  at  the 
Stevens  Light  and  Color  Institute. 

1. — Researcher,  writer,  instructor,  inventor. 

2. — Received  two  diplomas  and  one  certificate  and  the  highest  world  awards  on  fifteen 
scientific  and  health  inventions  at  the  Panama-Pacific  International  Exposition,  San 
Francisco. 

3. — Delivered  over  200  lectures  on  scientific  and  health  topics  in  1915. 

4. — Three  highest  international  awards  on  fifteen  scientific  and  health  instruments  and 
outfits. 

5. — Held  over  100  public  demonstrating  exhibits  in  three  continents  on  health  of  body 
and  mind. 

6. — Was  on  Faculty  as  instructor,  Department  of  Science  at  the  Bible  College,  Philadel- 
phia. 

7. — Instructor  in  physical  culture  department  at  and  received  a  certificate  in  the  Battle 
Creek  Sanitarium. 

8. — Won  three  national  records  for  deep  breathing  and  development  of  lung  capacity. 

9. — Received  medals  and  certificates  of  praise  from  the  American  Institute  of  Awards  and 
the  International  Inventors'  Organization. 

10. — Have  college  and  university  diplomas. 

11. — Taken  10  courses  within  ten  years  on  various  branches  of  science  and  psychology. 

12. — Sent  with  a  selected  party  to  Europe  for  one  year  to  teach  health  principles,  etc.,  by 
the  Battle  Creek  Sanitarium. 

13. — Completed  Professor  Milliken's  special  Electronic  Course  at  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia. 

14. — Completed  Baron  Person's  two  courses  on  the  laws  of  vibrations  and  healing. 

15. — President  and  Manager  of  the  Stevens  Light  and  Color  Institute  and  the  Stevens 
Health  Inventions  Company,  which  was  incorporated  under  the  Blue  Sky  laws  of 
California. 

16. — Vice  President  of  the  Bidd'e  Physical  Culture  organization  of  about  200,000  men. 


APPENDIX 
INTRODUCTORY 

The  writer  became  interested  in  Colors  while  in  the  Southland,  at  Lily  Dale,  our  Vir- 
ginian homestead;  and  as  a  student  in  Oil  Painting;  and  as  a  graduating  student  in  Bac- 
teriology under  Paul  Paquin  of  the  Pasteur  Institute,  who  was  an  associate  scientist  of  Pas- 
teur in  Paris;  in  studying  Music  and  Harmony;  and  in  Color  Therapeutics  in  connection 
with  the  private  research  laboratory  of  the  Stevens  Light  and  Color  Institute,  and  at  his 
time  I  find  a  great  and  growing  demand  for  Light  and  Color  knowledge  by  students  of  all 
branches  of  science,  religion  and  art,  and  in  fact  by  all  thinking  people  regardless  of  school 
of  science  or  religion. 

In  Vol.  II,  "Vibrations,  Their  Principles;  Light  and  Colors,  Their  Uses,"  several  chap- 
ters are  devoted  to  the  Spectrum  Analysis,  Incandescent,  Solids  and  Terrestial  and  Celes- 
tial Chemistry,  the  Ultra  Rays  and  Radio-activity,  Solar  and  Stellar  Color  Influences  on 
Human  Life,  etc.,  the  Solar  System  within  us,  Use  of  the  Prism,  the  Spectroscope,  etc.  Still 
other  chapters  of  great  interest  and  practical  value  to  progressing  students  will  be  treated. 


MY  JUNE,  1921,  VISIT  TO  LUTHER  BURBANK 
(I  Had  Previously  Visited  His  Gardens) 

As  I  consider  Luther  Burbank  to  be  at  least  one  of  the  foremost  authorities  on  Vibra- 
tions, Lights  and  Colors,  the  following  practical  information  will  not  be  amiss  in  this 
Appendix,  which  is  a  result  of  Mr.  Burbank's  personal  invitation  to  the  writer. 

The  meeting  of  the  world's  greatest  living  benefactor  and  renowned  scientist,  Luther 
Burbank,  at  his  private  residence  in  a  personal  way,  was  not  simply  valuable  from  the 
standpoint  of  making  his  acquaintance,  but  the  results  of  such  a  meeting  with  a  special 
object  in  view — relative  to  desired  information  on  Light  and  Colors — was  and  is  greatly 
appreciated  by  the  author. 

I  am  more  than  grateful  for  valuable  points  of  scientific  interest  secured  June  20, 1921, 
while  on  the  long-desired  meeting  with  Luther  Burbank,  and  to  have  him  personally  show 
me  over  his  modern  Garden  of  Eden. 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 91 

Luther  Burbank  is  a  household  name  throughout  the  civilized  world,  because  of 
his  wonderful  creations — the  Burbank  Potatoes;  the  Burbank  new  Plums;  the  Bur- 
bank  Cactus  Plant  Food  and  Cactus  Fruits;  the  Stoneless  Prunes;  the  Primus  Berry; 
the  Spineless  Cactus;  the  large,  different  colored,  luscious  Loganberries;  Burbank  Red 
Tomato  (earliest,  largest,  smoothest) ; Burbank  Sunberry;  Burbank  Hybrid  Lemon  Cucum- 
bers (white  and  green);  Burbank  Giant  Sunflower;  Burbank  Elephant  Garlic-Onion; 
Burbank  Giant  Hybrid  Artichoke;  the  Burbank  Tiger  Lily;  Burbank  Pop  pi  3  3  of  assorted 
colors;  Burbank  Giant  Primrose  ("as  large  as  a  handkerchief");  Burbank  Giant  Dahlia  s- 
Zimmiar;  also  many  grasses,  grains,  shrubs,  trees  and  nuts.  The  Burbank  Walnut,  a  hy- 
brid between  a  light  colored  English  Walnut  and  what  is  known  as  the  Black  American 
Walnut,  the  trees  of  which  are  raised  primarily  for  their  lumber.  Mr.  Burbank  informed 
the  writer  that  the  trees  were  very  valuable.  He  had  recently  received  orders  for  ten  mil- 
lion small  trees  from  the  Southwest  and  that  the  demand  for  years  was  greater  than  he 
could  supply.  The  growth  of  this  walnut  is  very  much  faster  than  the  uncivilized  walnut 
tree.  We  were  also  shown  the  gigantic  Shasta  Daisies  and  many  other  marvelous  Burbank 
productions.  Mr.  Burbank  informed  the  writer  that  he  was  at  this  particular  time  experi- 
menting with  6000  selections  in  his  Santa  Rosa  gardens  and  Sonoma  farms. 

At  his  Sebastopol  farms  are  his  cultures  of  trees,  shrubs,  grasses  and  grains;  here  you 
will  find  the  large,  luscious  Loquats,  the  Brambles,  the  California  Currants,  the  Aaron  Herbs 
and  many  others,  representing  all  the  colors  of  the  rainbow.  Last  but  not  least  will  men- 
tion here,  that  while  it  took  hundreds  of  years  for  the  Indians  to  develop  from  the  wild 
grass  of  the  plains  the  white  and  yellow  grains  of  corn  by  crude  cultivation,  the  wizard 
Burbank  has  developed  the  teosinte  grass  seeds,  by  careful  and  successful  cultivation 
through  the  marvelously  short  period  of  eighteen  years  (commencing  in  the  year  1903), 
the  present  prodigious  golden  grains  of  corn.  We  surely  live  in  the  age  of  miracles. 

While  at  his  residence,  the  principles  of  Light  and  Color  were  explained  in  connection 
with  large  varieties  of  flowers  photographed  in  color.  He  gently  reminded  his  visitor  that 
his  photo  color  artist  had  recently  received  a  million  dollars  for  his  colof  photograph  inven- 
tion. After  a  most  delightful  stay  at  the  Burbank  home,  this  master  of  Nature  escorted  the 
writer  and  a  student  friend  over  his  gardens.  He  described  the  various  colored  cactus 
flowers  and  fruits,  which  were  ripening  in  his  field  of  cactus  bushes,  several  of  which  he  pre^., 
sented  to  me  to  send  to  my  sisters,  who  live  in  Battle  Creek  and  Boston,  the  seeds  of  which 
they  could  forward  to  my  brothers  residing  in  Virginia,  North  Carolina  and  New  York  State. 
Before  Mr.  Burbank  had  plucked  these  fine  specimens  of  his  most  evolved  and  what  he 
termed  "civilized"  cactus  fruit,  he  very  kindly  served  us  with  a  cactus-fruit  refreshment. 
After  basking  in  the  beauties  of  his  flower,  seed  and  vegetable  gardens,  we  returned  to  one 
of  the  garden  houses,  where  Mr.  Burbank  polished  the  choice  specimens  of  red  and  orange* 


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pink  cactus  fruits  and  then  prepared  the  can-package  for  mai'ing  to  my  sisters.  There  was 
also  a  sample  of  the  spineless  cactus-fruit,  not  yet  fully  evolved,  a  fruit  with  a  remnant  of 
almost  invisible  prickly  points,  and  as  some  of  these  stuck  into  our  fingers  the  good  Samari- 
tan— Mr.  Burbank — came  to  our  aid  with  his  vest-pocket  supply  of  sandpaper.  He  said: 
"No  one  knows  how  many  nights  for  many  years  I  have  stayed  awake,  hours  at  a  time, 
randpapering  the  tiny  burrs  from  my  hands/'  We  then  visited  the  seed-mailing  and  tool 
department  and  received  samples  of  the  Burbank  Garlic-Onion,  after  which  we  returned 
to  his  residence. 

BURBANK'S  LIFE  VIBRATIONS— YOUTH  AND  FRIENDS 

While  in  conversation  relative  to  his  wonderful  spectra-colored  productions  of  trees, 
vegetables,  fruits  and  flowers,  Mr.  Burbank  remarked  that  as  everything  is  connected  with 
vibrations,  he  had  studied  closely  the  principles  and  laws  of  light  and  colors  for  a  number 
of  years,  in  fact,  ever  since  he  came  to  California  ("land  of  flowers"),  nearly  forty  years 
ago,  a  State  which  has  given  him  the  encouragement  to  enjoy  an  out-of-door,  healthy 
life  the  year  around.  He  came  from  the  East  suffering  from  poor  health  when  he  was  a 
young  man  under  forty  years  of  age.  Since  that  time  he  has  had  the  best  of  health  and 
continues  to  enjoy  activity  of  body  as  well  as  mind.  He  is  still  too  active  to  be  stout,  and 
talks  like  he  walks — in  a  deliberate  and  poised  manner.  Although  seventy-five  this 
year,  he  demonstrated  his  agility  to  the  author  in  his  spacious  parlor  by  going  through  some 
physical  culture  exercises,  among  which  he  turned  several  complete  somersaults,  backward 
and  forward,  in  a  manner  as  graceful  and  active  as  a  modern  university  "gym"  student. 
He  surely  has  not  allowed  the  old-age  dis-ease  ("error")  germ  to  take  possession  of  him. 
Mr.  Burbank  spoke  in  the  highest  terms  of  our  mutual  friends  in  the  human  development 
and  natural  health  lines — Dr.  J.  H.  Kellogg  of  Battle  Creek,  Mich.,  and  Paul  Von  Boeck- 
man  of  New  York  City.  The  former  had  paid  him  several  race  betterment  and  social  vis- 
its, and  the  latter  he  knew  through  correspondence.  He  also  referred  to  the  visits  of  his 
great  friend,  Edison,  who  was  his  guest  for  several  days  during  the  Panama-Pacific  Inter- 
national Exposition.  We  were  shown  the  framed  photograph  of  "Nature's  two  foremost 
Natural  Scientists" — Edison  and  Burbank — as  they  were  photographed  with  their  two 
wonderful  heads  touching  in  a  friendly  and  graceful  manner.  This  large  portrait  hung 
on  his  library  wall,  above  his  private  desk. 

Before  leaving  the  residence  of  Mr.  Burbank,  he  handed  the  writer  a  token  of  his 
friendship  in  the  form  of  a  couple  of  his  smaller  literary  productions,  and  on  the  front  page 
of  one  he  wrote  (no  doubt  as  a  courteous  resu't  of  reading  the  author's  "California,  the 
Super-Empire,"  by  a  Virginian)  the  following  sincere  and  reiterated  statement: 


LIGHT   AND    COLORS 93 

"June  20,  1921. 
Santa  Rosa. 
Dear  Dr.  Stevens:  — 

I  would  rather  live  on  a  piece  of  land  the  size  of  a  graveyard  lot  in  California,  than 
to  own  any  other  STATE  in  the  Union." 

LUTHER  BURBANK. 

In  reply  to  my  request  that  I  would  like  to  use  this  written  statement,  particularly  in 
my  forthcoming  "History  of  California  in  Verse/'  he  stated  he  had  no  objection. 

BURBANK'S  REMARKABLE  COLOR-CHANGING  EXPERIMENTS 

The  reader  has,  no  doubt,  witnessed  the  change  of  color  in  the  eyes  of  some  individ- 
uals, and  how  in  an  instant  certain  reptiles  have  the  power  to  change  the  color-radiance 
on  the  surface  of  their  skins — the  chameleon,  for  example.  The  same  forces  of  thought — 
or  should  we)  call  it  instinct? — are  at  work  within  the  plant  life.  On  June  20th,  1921, 
Luther  Burbank  showed  the  author,  in  his  experimental  gardens  in  Santa  Rosa,  how  he 
could  immediately  produce  inflammation,  or  an  angry  red  color,  by  shocking  a  certain 
variety  of  his  "civilizing"  cactus,  by  dashing  cold  water  over  these  desert  nature  plants. 
He  called  the  author's  special  attention  to  the  fact  that  some  of  these  particular  species 
could  "blush"  more  than  others  and  would  respond  to  the  effect  of  cold  water  vibration 
quicker  than  did  those  of  a  more  matured  and  older  cactus. 

In  the  larger  field  of  cactus  referred  to  previously,  which  he  was  developing,  he 
showed  three  prominent  varieties,  containing  large,  edible  cactus  fruit  of  three  different 
colors — orange,  yellow  and  ruby  red.  Mr.  Burbank  remarked  to  the  author  that  the  cactus 
fruit  upon  which  he  has  been  working  for  35  years,  together  with  some  of  his  other  experi- 
ments, have  cost  him  half  a  million  dollars.  He  rr.er  tioned  the  fact  that  the  yellow  or  yel- 
lowish red  varieties  had  been  found  unusually  fine  as  laxatives.  The  fruit  is  not  only  very 
nourishing  and  enjoyable,  but  par  excellence  as  an  acid  antidote.  He  related  as  an  exam- 
ple how  a  judge,  who  was  suffering  very  severely  with  acidosis,  was  unable  to  hold  court. 
The  judge  seemed  to  have  had  an  idea  that  tha  cactus  fruit,  not  being  acid,  might  strength- 
en him  if  he  ate  of  it  He  did  partake  of  a  portion  and  noticed  almost  instantaneous  re- 
lief, so  much  so  that  he  was  enabled  to  continue  court  proceedings  with  tranquility  of  mind 
and  body.  Mr.  Burbank  continued:  "I  find  this  to  be  true  of  those  who  are  taking  it  to 
neutralize  the  acid  conditions  of  the  alimentary  tract." 

I  trust  the  readers  of  this  page  will  spread  this  information,  together  with  that  of  the 
experiments  the  writer  made  with  the  use  of  the  electric  light  blue-to-violet  or  even  the 


94  VIBRATIONS 


light  yellow  colored  glass  globes  for  relieving  acid  conditions.    See  chapter  in  my  "Vibra- 
tions, Their  Principles;  Light  and  Colors,  Their  Uses/'  Vol.  I,  on  my  experiments. 


COLOR  THOUGHTS  AND  FORMS 

Taken  From  Luther  Burbank's  "Fundamental  Principles  of  Plant  Breeding/' 
Written  Among  the  Heights  of  the  Sierras. 

We  have  more  lately  discovered  that  no  two  plants  are  ever  exactly  alike,  each  one 
having  its  own  individuality,  and  that  new  varieties  have  endowments  of  priceless  value, 
and  even  distinct  new  species  can  be  produced  by  the  plant  breeder  with  the  same  precision 
that  machinery  for  locomotion  and  other  useful  purposes  are  produced  by  the  mechanic. 

Plant-breeding  is  in  its  earliest  infancy.  Its  possibilities,  and  even  its  fundamental 
principles,  are  understood  but  by  few;  in  the  past  it  has  been  mostly  dabbling  with  tre- 
mendous forces,  which  have  been  only  partially  appreciated,  and  it  has  yet  to  approach  the 
precision  which  we  expect  in  the  handling  of  steam  or  electricity.  And,  notwithstanding 
the  occasional  sneers  of  the  ignorant,  these  silent  forces,  embodied  in  plant-life,  have  yet 
a  part  to  play  in  the  regeneration  of  the  race,,  which  by  comparison  will  dwarf  into*  insig- 
nificance the  services  which  steam  and  electricity  have  so  far  given. 

The  results  now  secured  by  the  breeder  will  be  in  proportion  to  the  accuracy  and 
intensity  of  selection,  and  the  length  of  time  they  are  applied.  By  these  means  the  best  of 
fruits,  grains,  nuts  and  flowers  are  capable  of  still  further  improvements  in  ways  which  to 
the  thoughtless  often  seem  unnecessary,  irrelevant,  or  impossible. 

The  plant-breeder  is  an  explorer  into  the  Infinite.  He  will  have  "No  time  to  make 
money,"  and  his  castle — the  brain — must  be  clear  and  alert  in  throwing  aside  fossil  ideas 
and  rapidly  replacing  them  with  living,  throbbing  thought  followed  by  action.  Then,  and 
not  till  then,  shall  he  create  marvels  of  beauty,  and  value  must  be  produced  by  the  intelli- 
gent application  of  the  forces  of  Nature  which  are  always  awaiting  our  commands. 

And  who  can  estimate  the  elevating  and  refining  influence  and  moral  value  of  flowers, 
with  all  their  graceful  forms  and  bewitching  shades  and  combinations  of  colors  and  exquis- 
itely varied  perfumes?  These  silent  influences  are  unconsciously  felt  even  by  those  who 
do  not  appreciate  them  consciously,  and  thus,  with  better  and  still  better  fruits,  nuts, 
grains  and  flowers,  will  the  earth  be  transformed,  men's  thoughts  turned  from  the  base, 
destructive  forces  into  the  nobler  productive  ones,  which  will  lift  him  to  higher  planes  of 
action  toward  that  happy  day  when  man  shall  offer  his  brother  man,  not  bullets  and  bayo- 
nets, but  richer  grains,  better  fruits  and  fairer  flowers. 

Science  sees  better  grains,  nuts,  fruits  and  vegetables,  all  in  new  forms,  sizes,  colors 


LIGHT   AND    COLORS 95 

and  insect  pests;  fruits  without  stones,  seeds  or  spines;  better  fibre,  tea,  sugar, 
and  flavors,  with  more  nutrients  and  less  waste,  and  with  every  injurious  and  poisonous 
quality  eliminated,  and  with  power  to  resist  sun,  wind,  rain,  frost  and  destructive  fungus, 
spice,  rubber,  oil,  paper  and  timber  trees,  and  sugar,  starch,  color  and  perfume  plants. 
Every  one  of  these,  and  ten  thousand  more,  are  within  the  reach  of  the  most  ordinary  skill 
in  plant-breeding. 

Among  these  dizzy  heights  of  rock,  ice-cleft,  glacier-plowed  and  water-worn,  wa 
stand  face  to  face  with  the  first  and  latest  pages  of  world  creation,  for  now  we  see  also 
tender  and  beautiful  flowers,  adding  grace  of  form  and  color  to  the  grisly  walls,  and  far 
away  down  the  slopes  stand  the  giant  trees,  oldest  of  all  living  things,  embracing  all  human 
history ;  but  even  their  lives  are  but  a  watch-tick  since  the  stars  first  shone  on  these  barren 
rocks,  before  the  evolutive  forces  had  so  gloriously  transfigured  the  face  of  our  planet 
home. 

THOU  SHALT  NOT  KILL 

The  author  asked  Luther  Burbank  how  he  found  time  to  write  books,  as  well  as  to  keep 
up  with  his  manifold  experimentations.  He  quickly  replied  that  he  used  up  his  scraps  of 
time  while  he  was  traveling  and  while  he  was  going  to  and  from  work.  He  added  that 
whenever  an  inspirational  thought  came  to  him  he  jotted  it  down  on  any  scrap  of  paper  he 
could  find,  after  which  these  scraps  of  writing  were  transcribed  by  his  secretary.  The 
higher  lights  and  co'ors  of  intelligence  unfold,  develop  and  grow  by  this  method  of  pat- 
ronizing the  golden  grains  of  opportunity,  which,  perhaps,  ninety-nine  out  of  every  hun- 
dred lose,  by  killing  their  best  friend — "Time." 


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT  OF  SISTER'S  CACTUS-FRUIT  PRESENT 
FROM  LUTHER  BURBANK 

51  Queensbury  St.,  Boston,  Mass., 

June  29,  1921. 
Dearest  Ernest: 

The  parcel  post  package,  containing  the  cactus  (spineless)  fruit  received,  and  I 
hasten  to  te'l  you  that  it  has  a  wonderful  flavor,  and  the  coloring  is  beautiful.  It  is  juicy 
and  refreshing  on  a  hot  day.  Am  forwarding  the  seeds  to  Virginia. 

Your  visit  to  Luther  Burbank  will  be  an  inspiration  to  your  work  (research),  as  there 
is  so  much  in  common  between  you.  Affectionately, 

EDITH. 


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SUPER-AFFIRMATIONS 

I  believe  in  Humanity. 

I  believe  in  the  God  of  Love. 

I  believe  in  the  Divine  Intelligence. 

I  believe  in  the  Old  and  New  Bibles. 

I  believe  in  the  School  of  Intuition. 

I  believe  in  the  Book  of  Life. 

I  believe  in  the  Book  of  Nature. 

I  believe  in  the  Universal  Bible. 

I  believe  in  my  Greater  Inner  Self. 

I  believe  in  an  Aristocracy  of  Intelligence. 

I  believe  I  am  an  Evolving  Superman. 

I  believe  I  am  an  Optimistic  Pessimist. 

I  believe  I  am  a  Son  of  God  and  a  Sun  of  Intelligencs. 

I  believe  in  doing  my  own  Thinking. 

I  believe  I  can  be  what  I  want  to  be  as  an  advancing  Soul. 

I  believe  there  is  Intelligence  of  some  sort  in  all  Living  Things. 

I  wou'd  rather  be  a  dean  in  the  University  of  Intuiive  Intelligence  than  be  the  presi- 
dent of  the  world's  greatest  university. 

I  believe  in  working  for  Godliness  and  enjoying  the  Heaven  within. 

I  am  the  likeness  of  God.    I  will  find  the  God  Wilhi.i  as  well  as  Without. 

I  am  Health,  Love  and  Eternal  Youth. 

I  believe  that  Expression  deepens  Impression. 

I  believe  Love  is  the  inventor  and  creator  of  all  things. 

I  believe  that  individuality  comes  from  the  holy  of  holies  wilhin  the  human  soul,  and 
this  is  found  by  traveling  on  the  royal  road  of  self-expression  and  service. 


SCIENCE  OF  LINES  AND  FORMS 

Pythagorus  he'ievcd  in  the  vibratory  science  of  lines  and  numbers.  All  lines  are 
formed  by  certain  thought  forms,  which  must  have  heen  moulded  from  a  certain  intelli- 
gence; but  remember  that  the  lines  of  the  heart  and  hand  are  of  greater  significance  than 
the  lir.es  of  your  hands  or  palms  or  the  bumps  on  your  head. 


Cleanliness  is  more  than  "next  to  Godliness,"  for  it  is  God  liners.    Perspiration,  Respir- 
ation and  Elimi-a'ior,  with  c'ean  thoughts,  spells  CLEANLINESS  AND  HEALTH. 


LIGHT    AND    COLORS 97 

SOURCES  OF  MUSIC,  VERSE  AND  INVENTION 

In  the  rich  and  sacred  soil  of  the  human  soul,  the  spiritual  intelligence  pro- 
duces the  flowers  of  pure  music,  true  poetry,  and  good  inventions,  together  with  all 
the  choice  fruits  of  a  great  friendship,  which  are  ripened  and  sweetened  by  a  sunny  disposi- 
tion. The  soul  is  the  Garden  of  Sweet  Song,  the  poet's  trysting  corner  and  the  artist's 
ody Hie  studio.  Silence  is  the  gardener,  and  sacred  silence,  so  close  to  Nature,  is  the  parent 
of  inspiration  as  conceived  in  friendship's  womb  and  nourished  by  tone  and  sympathy. 


ZONE  THERAPY  COLOR  PRESCRIPTIONS  FOR  THE  NERVES 

Red  and  pink — Nerve  stimulating. 

Orange — Nerve  animating. 

Yellow  (sun  color) — Nerve  relaxing. 

Blue  and  violet — Nerve  soothing. 

N.  B. — Use  the  pure  or  true  colors. — E.  J.  S. 


PERPETUAL  MOTION 

We  should  realize  and  appreciate  the  fact  that  every  thing  is,  more  or  less,  in  motion. 
This  is  true  with  the  non-material — the  mental  and  Spiritual — as  well  as  the  material  things 
«f  life.  Although  the  sages  of  old  informed  us  that  every  thing  is  in  "flux,"  yet  it  has  only 
been  of  recent  date  that  this  knowledge  has  been  generally  accepted  by  intelligent  people. 


ZONES  FOR  RELAXATION  OF  MOTION 

By  reclining  and  crossing  the  feet  and  bringing  the  hands  together  over  the  breast,  or 
otherwise  bringing  the  toes  together  and  entwining  the  fingers  with  the  two  embraced 
hands  placed  behind  the  head,  will  induce  relaxation  and  secure  rest — from  outer  vibra- 
tions.. 


Grow  youth  cells  by  always  thinking  of  life  in  terms  of  youth  and  by  avoiding  risky  and 
doubtful  associations. 


Creative  radio-activity  comes  from  the  love-life  radiating  the  spiritual  urge. 


APPENDIX  II 

ZONE  THERAPEUTICS 

BREATHING  VIBRATIONS,  OR  SCIENTIFIC  BREATHING  LESSONS 

For  Use  With  or  Without  a  Spirometer  or  the  Stevens 
Breath  Controller 

How  can  the  art  of  breathing  be  mastered  in  the1  least  time  and  with  the  least  diffi- 
culty? The  solution  of  this  question  will  be  found  in  the  following  pages. 

The  first  requirement  for  correct  breathing  and  lung  development  is  the  proper  car- 
riage of  the  body.  This  is  rare.  The  great  majority  of  the  people  have  more  or  less  bent 
spines  and  undeveloped  lungs,  and  consequently  they  cannot  possibly  breathe  correctly. 
The  exercises  given  herewith,  if  perseveringry  practiced,  are  sufficient  for  the  acquirement 
of  proper  carriage,  normal  lung  development  and  proper  breathing,  with  all  their  attendant 
benefits.  They  have  been  specially  prepared  for  this  book  by  an  expert,  who  was  instruct- 
or at  the  largest  health  university  on  this  planet — the  Ba'tle  Creek  Sanitarium — and  are 
made  as  few  in  number  and  as  simple  as  possible.  It  is  not  by  practicing  a  large  variety 
of  exercises,  but  by  assiduous  work  with  a  few  properly  selected  movements  that  the 
desired  results  are  to  be  attained. 

For  the  rapid  development  of  the  lungs,  exercises  and  testing  with  the  Breath  Con- 
troller are  of  thel  greatest  value.  With  this  appliance  more  can  be  accomplished  in  one 
month  than  could  be  gained  in  three  without  it 

This  Controller  is  a  device  for  exercising  the  throat  and  lung  muscles  in  particular 
and  all  of  the  muscles  of  the  body  in  general,  through  breathing  and  measuring  the 
amount  of  air  which  can  be  taken  into  and  exhaled  from  the  lungs. 

The  following  exercises  have  proven  of  greatest  value  in  a  wide  range  of  ignorant 
or  erroneous  conditions,  from  the  girl  who  has  "hones"  in  her  chest  to  the  man  with  the 
waxy  pallor,  the  shrunken  chest  and  the  hacking  cough,  or  those  susceptible  to  catching 
colds  or  for  weak  or  small  lungs. 

LESSON  ONE. 

EXERCISE  No.  1. — Stand  erect,  heels  together,  toes  out.  Bend  forward,  and,  with- 
out raising  heels  or  allowing  knees  to  bend,  try  to  touch  the  toes  with  the  finger  tips. 


LIGHT   AND    COLORS 99 

You  will  not  at  first  be  able  to  reach  the  toes  with  the  finger  tips,  but  it  is  not  necessary 
that  you  should.  The  effort  to  do  so  will  stretch  the  shortened  ligaments  and  conduce  to 
the  correct  position. 

EXERCISE  No.  2. — Stand  erect,  knees,  hips  and  chin  back,  chest  raised.  Without 
lifting  heels,  sway  the  body  forward  until  the  weight  is  on  the  balls  of  the  feet.  Then  take 
a  full  breath,  and,  with  head  thrown  back,  raise  the  arms,  palms  forward,  and  stretch  the 
whole  body  upward  and  forward,  as  if  you  were  trying  to  reach  the  ceiling. 

EXERCISE  No.  3. — Stand  erect,  feet  about  twelve  inches  apart.  Take  weight  upon 
right  foot,  extend  right  hand  upward,  palm  outward.  Now  take  full  breath,  raise  left  foot 
from  floor  and  stretch,  trying  to  increase  the  distance  between  the  right  hand  and  left  foot. 

EXERCISE  No.  4. — This  is  the  reverse  of  No.  3.  Take  weight  on  left  foot,  raise  left 
hand  and  stretch  as  in  previous  exercise. 

EXERCISE  No.  5. — Stand  with  right  foot  in  advance  as  if  taking  a  step.  Take  full 
breath.  Then,  raising  right  hand  toward  ceiling,  palms  forward,  lift  the  left  foot  from  the 
the  floor  and  stretch  upward  and  forward. 

EXERCISE  No.  6.— Reverse  of  No.  5. 

LESSON  TWO 
Breathing  Is  the  Most  Important  Physical  Exercise 

EXERCISE  No.  7. — Stand  as  in  Exercise  No.  5,  right  foot  in  advance.  Then,  with 
weight  on  left  foot,  raise  left  arm  up  and  backward,  palm  forward,  lift  right  foot  and 
stretch. 

The  stretching  exercise  should  always  be  followed  by  an  exercise  for  relaxation.  The 
best  for  general  purposes  is  the  following: 

EXERCISE  No.  8. — Stand  with  feet  weQ  apart,  whole  body  relaxed,  arms  hanging 
loosely.  Now  shake  the  body,  only  gently,  using  the  least  possible  muscular  exertion,  until 
conscious  of  a  feeling  of  general  muscular  relaxation  and  restfulness.  This  exercise  may 
be  varied  by  walking  about,  allowing  the  whole  body  to  sway  and  sag,  as  if  deeply  intoxi- 
cated. This  exercise,  besides  being  a  corrective  of  the  tension  Gable  to  result  from  the 
stretching  and  reaching  exercises,  is  always  restful,  and  frequently  will  relieve  insomnia. 

EXERCISE  No.  9. — Stand  with  feet  together,  hands  gently  clasped  over  abdomen. 
Inhale  breath.  Now,  bend  forward  toward  the  floor,  and  at  the  same  time  allow  the  breath 
to  escape.  After  the  breath  is  all  out,  rise  to  the  erect  position,  at  the  same  time  inhaling 
full  breath.  Repeat  from  four  to  eight  times. 

EXERCISE  No.  10. — Stand  with  feet  together,  arms  extended  straight  at  sides,  palms 
forward.  Now,  keeping  arms  in  the  same  position,  slowly  turn  the  body  as  on  a  pivot  forward 
the  right  as  far  as  possible,  until  the  muscles  of  the  trunk  are  firmly  stretched.  Then  re- 


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verse  the  movement,  turning1  toward  the  left  as  far  around  as  possible.  This  is  an  incom- 
parable exercise  for  imparting  strength  to  the  muscles  of  the  abdominal  region  and  sma'l 
of  the  back. 

It  may  be  remarked  in  connection  with  these  exercises,  that  many  of  those  distressing 
disorders  peculiar  to  civilized  womankind  may  be  benefited  by  a  properly  adapted  course 
of  stretching,  posing  and  breathing  gymnastics. 

LESSON  THREE 
With  a  Spirometer  or  the  Stevens  Breath  Controller 

BREATHING  EXERCISE  No.  1.— Stand  erect,head  and  chest  up, weight  on  balls  of  feet. 
Take  the  tube  of  the  Controller  between  the  lips.  Now,  inhale  gently  through  the  nose 
until  the  lungs  are  full  of  air.  Then,  without  holding  the  breath,  exhale  steadily  through 
the  tube.  Make  a  memorandum  of  the  point  on  the  dial  at  which  the  hand  stops.  This 
indicates  the  number  of  cubic  inches  of  air  which  can  be  taken  into  and  exhaled  from  the 
lungs.  With  most  people  it  will  be  small  at  first.  Gradually,  as  the  lungs  increase  in  power 
and  capacity,  the  hand  on  the  dial  will  register  more  and  more,  increasing  a  few  inches  each 
day  until  the  normal  is  reached.  By  this  time  the  bent  figure  has  straightened  up,  the 
muddy  skin  is  clearer,  the  eyes  brighter,  the  voice  has  an  accustomed  resonance,  fits  of  de- 
pression, nervousness  and  langour  disappear,  and  the  individual  knows  an  entirely  new 
sense  of  energy  and  health. 

BREATHING  EXERCISE  No.  2.— Sit  erect  in  an  ordinary  straight-backed  chair, 
head  back,  chest  raised,  spine  straight.  Now  take  the  mouthpiece  of  the  Stevens  Breath 
Controller  between  the  lips  and,  with  hands  on  the  abdomen,  inhale  gently  through  the 
nose  as  in  the  preceding  exercise.  Note  that  first  the  waist  and  then  the  chest  enlarges. 
As  soon  as  the  full  capacity  of  the  lungs  has  been  reached,  exhale  with  the  same  gentleness 
through  the  Controller  and  notice  that  first  the  chest,  then  the  sides  and  back  anil  lastly  ^he 
abdomen  sinks.  This  is  the  normal  breathing  movement.  It  may  be  observed  in  animals 
and  young  children  and  in  perfectly  healthy  adults. 

BREATHING  EXERCISE  No.  3.— Stand  erect,  feet  together,  weight  forward.  Place 
the  mouthpiece  of  the  Breath  Controller  between  the  lips  and  the  hand  upon  the  abdomen. 
Now  inhale  slowiy  through  the  nose  and  hold  the  breath  by  closing  the  throat  (as  in  pro- 
nouncing the  word  "ache").  Then,  still  holding  the  breath,  lift  the  abdomen,  reducing 
the  size  of  the  waist  and  forcing  the  air  into  the  chest.  Then  allow  the  diaphragm  and 
abdominal  muscles  to  descend.  Repeat  this  several  times.  Then  slowly  and  steadily  ex- 
hale through  the  Breath  Controller. 

BREATH!  G  EXERCISE  No.  4.  Stand  erect,  weight  forward,  head  back,  chest  up, 
arms  hanging  easily.  Place  the  mouthpiece  of  the  Breath  Controller  between  the  lips  and 


LIGHT   AND   COLORS 101 

take  full,  gentle  inspiration,  allowing  first  the  abdomen  and  then  the  sides  and  chest  to  be 
filled  by  the  inhaled  air.  Exhale  in  the  same  manner,  occasionally  testing  the  correctness 
of  the  action  by  placing  one  hand  upon  the  chest  and  the  other  upon  the  abdomen,  remem- 
bering that  the  first  air  inhaled  should  expand  the  waist. 

BREATHING  EXERCISE  No.  5.— Stand  erect,  as  in  the  preceding  exercise.  Now, 
inhale  very  slowly  until  the  full  capacity  of  the  lungs  is  reached,  then  gently  exhale  to  the 
sound  of  sh  as  in  the  word  "hush."  This  exercise  is  particularly  valuable  in  the  treatment 
of  stuttering,  stammering  or  huskiness  of  voice. 

These  exercises  should  at  first  be  practiced  very  gently,  and  should  not  be  allowed  to 
extend  over  five  minutes  at  a  time.  If  practiced  as  directed,  the  inevitable  result  will  be 
increase  in  the  chest  development  and  activity,  and  consequent  health,  strength  and 
vitality. 


HEALING  AIR  BATH  VIBRATIONS 

It  is  an  accepted  fact  by  intelligent  people  that  the  light  and  air  baths  are  the  most 
important  of  any  class  of  baths  for  the  health  and  comfort  of  an  individual,  and  it  is  con- 
ceded by  Science  and  Health  Instructors  and  Healers  that  "fresh,"  i.  e.,  pure  air  (including 
fight  and,  of  course,  the  influence  of  a  cheerful  and  willing  mind)  is  Nature's  method  of 
cleansing  and  purifying  the  outer  surface  and  the  inner  and  outer  passages  of  the  human 
body,  thus  preventing  and  relieving  ("curing")  a  long  list  of  "ailments,"  errors  or  irregu- 
larities. This  is  the  natural  means  by  which  the  dirt  and  germs  can  be  removed  from  the 
respiratory  tract  and  the  invisible  air  cells.  Physicians  and  healers  send  their  patients  to 
the  balsam  or  pine  forests,  where  they  build  sanitariums.  We  can  now  secure  and  use  the 
world's  best  balsams  at  home,  using  the  ever-ready  air  as  a  vehicle,  as  well  as  a  dilutant, 
to  carry  (inhale)  and  mix  with  Nature's  finest  healing  and  life- vitalizing  products. 

We  all  inhale  dust  and  germs.  Healthy  tissue  in  active  and  regular  use  rejects  and 
ejects  them,  but  unused  parts  and  cells  furrish  a  favorable  culture  field  for  the  enterprising 
catarrh  or  la  grippe  bacillus,,  which  loses  no  time  in  starting  a  colony.  Those  who  are 
accustomed  to  robust  exercise  out-of-doors  develop  sound  and  roomy  breathing  apparatus. 
To  confine  such  persons  to  the  house  or  to  poorly  ventilated  halls,  and  make  them  seden- 
tary in  their  habits,  results  almost  invariably  in  a  retrograde  movement,  which  too  often 
ends  in  stomach  troubles  from  lack  of  oxygen  and  exercise,  colds,  catarrh,  bronchitis, 
and  even  tuberculosis. 

Some  day  pneumonia  may  affect  a  portion  of  your  lungs.  It  may  be  the  only  part 
capable  of  being  used.  The  rest  may  have  become  atrophied  by  non-us  What  are  you 
going  to  do?  Are  you  going  to  do  just  the  same  as  thousands  before  yoa  have  done,  die 


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for  want  of  air?  Die,  perhaps,  in  one  of  the  stages  of  congestion?  Die,  because  of  the 
active  parts  of  the  lungs  being  affected  and  the  non-active,  negative  parts  being  unable  to 
do  their  work? 

The  secret  of  Good  Health  and  Youth  is  to  five  each  day  so  as  to  prevent  the  possibility 
of  the  beginnings  of  disease.  DO  NOT  WAIT  UNTIL  you  lose  your  most  priceless  posses- 
sion— perfect  health — before  attempting  to  give  it  attention.  Seek  to  actualize  the  wis- 
dom of  that  formula,  "an  ounce  of  prevention  is  worth  a  pound  of  cure."  Prepare  to-day 
and  begin  now  to  increase  your  bank  account  of  good  health  and  youthful  spirits  by  be- 
coming an  apt,  alert  student  in  the  University  of  Nature.  Don't  draw  on  your  health 
capital,  when  doing  extra  work  of  any  sort,  but  instead  on  your  bank  of  super-health  inter- 
est, which  Mother  Nature  generously  offers.  Prepare  by  increasing  and  maintaining  per- 
fect health  every  day. 

Inhalation  of  the  balmy  balsam  vapor  is  Nature's  gift  to  relieve  those  who  need  help 
as  a  preventive  against  diseases  of  the  air  passages  and  for  the  purification  of  the  blood. 


BREATHING  AND  BALSAM  THERAPY 

The  Breathing  and  Balsam  Therapy  branch  of  Science  and  Nature  is  the  mutual  meet- 
ing ground  of  all  Scientists,  Naturalists,  New  Thoughters,  Christian  Therapeutists,  Theoso- 
phists  and  all  "Advanced  Thinkers" — for  all  advocate  purified  air,  the  natural  ozone 
"Breath  of  Life." 

CLEANLINESS  IS  GODLINESS.  Why  should  the  sufferer  be  compelled  to  go  to 
the  balsam  forests  to  bathe  in  pine  air  in  order  to  be  relieved,  when  he  can  at  last  secure 
and  inhale  Nature's  cleansing,  clearing,  stimulating  and  protecting  "ozone  balsam"  air 
baths  at  home,  at  almost  no  expense  and  with  no  loss  of  valuable  time?  In  other  words, 
"Bring  the  mountain  to  Mahomet."  The  long  list  of  catarrhal  conditions  are  now  readily 
curable. 

NATURE'S  BALSAM  AIR  BATH  INHALATIONS.  Every  step  in  the  progress  of 
the  treatment  of  the  air  passages  has  approached  nearer  to  Nature,  till  at  this  time  you 
can  claim  a  perfectly  natural  as  well  as  a  scientific  "aid  to  Nature"  method  in  accordance 
with  Nature's  law,  and  at  infinitely  less  expense  than-  being  forced  to  live  at  or  near  a 
"health  resort  up  in  the  pines." 

SANITARIUMS  situated  in  ozonized  or  balsamized  fields  and  woods  are  ideal  for 
those  having  sufficient  funds,  and  who  can  keep  from  worrying  about  city  duties, 
but  how  few  of  this  type!  Proper  diet,  rest,  sunshine  or  light  and  patience,  are  essential 
to  a  more  rapid  recovery,  particularly  in  tuberculosis.  The  small  sized  Balsam  Nebulizers 
and  the  Sanitarium  Balsam  Vaporizers  (see  page  37  of  this  volume),  with  a  good  supply 


LIGHT   AND   COLORS 103 

of  the  highest  awarded  gold  medal  balsam  extracts,  may  be  secured  from  the  STEVENS 
HEALTH  INVENTIONS  CO.  of  Philadelphia  and  San  Francisco,  or  through  their  sanitar- 
ium representatives,  as  low  as,  respectively,  $5.50  and  $3.30,  and  for  larger  outfits 
higher  prices.  Remember,  the  BEST  is  the  cheapest. 

These  HOME  SANITARIUMS.— The  Stevens  Nebulizer,  with  air  pump  or  hand  bulb, 
as  well  as  the  Stevens  Balsam  Pocket  Vaporizer,  received  the  Highest  Award,  at  the  Pana- 
ma-Pacific International  Exposition,  and  (previously)  at  The  American  Institute  of 
Awards  and  at  the  International  Inventors'  Exposition.  The  writer  also  received  these 
awards  for  his  comfortable  Oil  Internal  Bath  and  Breath  Controller,  and  at  the  Panama- 
International  Exposition  on  the  exhibited  Electric  Light  Bath  Cabinets. 

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ZONERTHERAPY 

Zonertherapy  is  a  convenient  compound  term  which  means  the  healing  or  constructive 
and  reconstructive  science  of  vibrations  in  sympathy  with  the  zones  or  divisions  of  the 
human  body.  The  rhythm  of  the  breath,  together  with  exercise,  are  of  paramount  import- 
ance. Thus  the  author  lays  the  greatest  stress  on  this  human  requisite. 


NATURE'S  PENDULUM 

It  is  as  natural  to  stretch  as  to  relax,  to  impress  as  to  express,  to  "reach  out"  as  to 
"let  go,"  to  stimulate  as  to  depress,  for  thus  the  rhythm  of  life  keeps  us  alive,  and  fresh, 
and  strong  and  young. 

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Sunshine  makes  songsters  and  singers  and  smiles.  These  and  the  other  sweet  fruits 
are  produced  by  a  sunny,  clear  atmosphere. 


"There  is  no  knowledge  greater  than  music." — An  Ancient  East  Indian  Axiom. 


Are  you  alive  to  the  marvelous  possibilities  awaiting  YOUR  command? 


ANNOUNCEMENT 

Electronic  Science  of  the  Electro-Magnetic  Forces  and  How  Dis-ease  ("errors")  Are 
Being  Diagnosed  and  Cured,  by  Changing  the  Rates  of  Vibrations,  will  be  the  subject  mat- 
ter of  several  chapters  in  my  forthcoming  Vol.  II  of  "Vibrations,  Their  Principles;  Light 
and  Colors,  Their  Uses,"  now  in  preparation. 

Throughout  the  civilized  world,  physicists,  naturalists  and  healers  are  becoming 
awakened  to  the  tremendous  potentialities  for  curing  irregularities  of  the  mental  and  physi- 
cal bodies  and  for  building  new  cells  of  youth  and  energy  by  the  application  of  higher 
rates  and  higher  octaves  of  vibrations.  We  are  surely  on  the  eve  of  startling  and  revolu- 
tionary disclosures  along  the  line  of  electro-magnetic  vibrations. 

There  is  a  section  in  Vol.  II  on  Zones  and  Polarization,  Zone  Therapy,  Air  and 
Breath  Forces. 

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INDEX  OF  NAMES  QUOTED,  ETC. 
Page 

.„ 7 


Emily  and  Edith. 

Fred  Emerson  Brooks ~ — _ 15 

Henry  Frank 15 

My  Penna.  University  Instructors 15 

Pauline   Jacobson. 15 

Prof.    MiUiken 15 

Lucretius    18 

Prof.  J.  J.  Thomas _ _ _ _  20 

Clifton  Harby  Levy —21 

Prof.  Cleaves  _.23 

Dr.   Harold  Palmer __ 27 

Masters,  Saviors,  Prophets 28 

Judge  Mahoney  „ __ 32 

Harry  Gaze  _ ~  33 

Oriental  names  _ __ _ _33-34 

Mme.    Courlandon   _ 35 

Profs.  Lick,  Wilson  &  Lowe _ 36 

Buddha,  Krishna  and  Jesus,  Christ — 38 

Wordsworth  _ _  38 

Dr.  Edwin  F.  Bowers _ -_  43 

Dr.  Geo.  Starr  White _ 44 

R.  G.  Ingersoll _ 46  and  83 

Dr.  Wm.  Poole _ _.  15  and  48 

Dr.  Ella  R.  Bell 15  and  49 

Dr.  J.  W.  Starkey 15  and  49 

Prof.  Herman  Boeker 49 

Nellie  B.  Cooper,  M.  Cp. 49 

Encyclopedia    _ 52 

Helen  Keller 53 

Funk  and  Wagner 53 

Dr.  Edwin  D.  Babbit 57-57-59 

Dr.  Pancoast 57-58 

F.  F.  Burdick 64  and  77 

Dr.  A.  J.  Ochsner,  L.L.D.,  FJV.C.S 64 

Dr.   Julia  Seaton  ...  67 


W    J-  Colvill* 

Page 

68 

Prof.   Swedenborg 

„..      68 

Dr.  James  Rodes  Buchanan  . 

68 

Professor   Crookes 

75 

"Odic  Ught  Friend" 

75 

Pro*.  Hodingshead  

77 

Gudrun  Friis  Holm,  M.  D.,  D.  0. 78 

Dr.  Howard  G.  Ellis 78 

Prof.   Einstein „„ 79 

Prof.  Newton. 79  and  80 

Euclid  __ _ _ __  79 

Astronomers  „ 80 

Fabre  and  Plato _ 81 

Dr.  Oliver  Wendell  Holmes 81 

J.  F.  Lyras _ 84 

Adam  and  Eve _ 85 

Shakespeare,   Pope _ __ _ 86 

"Pres.  Moore,  Theodore  Hardee 87 

Luther  Burbank  90,  91,  92,  93,  94,  95 

Edison    _ 92 

Dr.  J.  H.  Kellogg _ 92 

Paul  Von   Boeckman 92 

"Edith"  (Mrs.  Geo.  Elder) 95 

Pythagorus   96 

Battle  Creek  Sanitarium 98 

Mahomet 102 

East  Indian  Axiom 103 

Dr.  Thrasher  and  other  authors  of  books 
supplied  by  the  Stevens  Publishing 
Co 104 

(  Prof.  John  Milton  Scott 115 

-<  Dr.  James  L.  Gordon _ 115 

(  Whose  co-operative  thoughtfulness 

inspired  them  to  review  in  part  or 

toto  this  book. 


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MARVELOUS  ODIC  AND  AURIC  LIGHT  EXPERIENCES 

The  author,  who  has  thoroughly  enjoyed  many  marvelous  and  intensely  interesting 
seasons  of  Odic  Light  and  Color  experiments,  will  continue  to  experiment  and  take  data 
along  the  Odyllic  lines  of  investigation  and  research,  and  will  secure  valuable  information 
from  otheral  who  have  cultivated  the  inner  and  higher  sense  of  Sight,  as,  for  example,  the 
following  statement  written;  by  our  mystic  friend,  F.  J.  Darrah,  for  the  first  time  and  especi- 
ally for  this  book: 

Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  Oct.  10,  1921. 
My  Dear  Doctor  Stevens: — 

I  thank  you  for  the  privilege,  so  courteously  vouchsafed  unto  me,  of  scanning 
in  advance  the  proof  sheets  of  your  informative  book  on  "Vibrations,  Lights  and  Colors." 
I  return  same  to  you  herewith  and  extend  to  you  my  sincere  congratulations  upon  your  suc- 
cessful accomplishment  of  a  well-nigh  perfect  work  along  its  own  distinctively  peculiar 
fines. 

The  varied  phenomena  of  Light  and  Color,  in  correlation  with  Sound  and  Number, 
have  for  many  years  compelled  my  profound  interest;  and  the  concentrated  focus  of  that 
interest  lies  (strange  to  say)  within  the  domain  of  the  Odic,  the  Odyllic,  the  Auric  and  the 
Magnetic  Light.  Choose  from  among  these  terms  the  one  that  suits  you  best;  for  in  the 
last  resort  they  are  synonyms,  referring  in  this  connection  to  that  specific  effluence  or 
emanation  flowing  from  any  form  of  whatsoever  kind  in  which  the  constructive  power,  the 
cohesive  principle  of  Creative  Potency  is  actively  in  operation.  One  of  the  crudest  and 
most  easily  observable  manifestation  of  the  Odyllic  Light  is  to  be  found  in  the  dim  radiance 
emitted  by  a  horseshoe  magnet  There  are  many  persons  who  can,  under  the  proper  con- 
dition, clearly  see  that  light  with  the  unaided  physical  eye,  as  witnessed  by  the  testimony  of 
Mesmer,  Baron  Von  Reichenback,  Prof.  Sir  Wm.  Crookes,  Prof.  Babbitt  and  others. 

But  an  ability  to  perceive  the  same  kind  of  light  as  is  seen  from  growing  vegetable 
forms,  from  animals,  from  human  beings  and  even  from,  at  least  some,  so  called  inanimate 
objects  appears  to  be  possessed  by  very  few  persons  indeed. 

I  speak  now  of  unaided  PHYSICAL  and  not  CLAIRVOYANT  vision.  Some  twenty 
odd  years  ago  I  quite  accidental'y  became  aware  of  possessing  that  (so  to  speak)  EXTEN- 
SION of  the  visual  sense  myself,  and  from  the  date  of  that  unsought  revelation  down  to 
the  present  day  I  kave  been  and  now  am  able  to  consciously  utilize  the  gift,  if  such  it  be, 
but  orly  at  certain  times  and  under  definitely  specific  circumstances.  These  conditions 
are,  however,  not  exacting  or  hard  to  comply  with;  all  that  is  required  is  that  the  object 
under  observation,  for  instance  a  tree,  be  visible  clearly  and  distinctly  outlined  against  a 


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cloudless  sky  at  that  moment  when  the  evening  afterglow  begins  to  merge  into  twilight. 
Viewed  under  such  conditions  I  see  the  tree  enveloped  in  flame — a  spiral  cone  of  efflour- 
escent  light,  the  diameter  of  its  circular  base  extending  a  trifle  beyond  the  furthest  reach 
of  the  tree's  roots  and  symmetrically  tapering  thence  to  a  point  slightly  above  the  upper- 
most tuft  of  foliage.  A  rhythmic,  ascensive  spiral  movement  pervades  the  entire  body  of 
the  cone  of  light,  and  instead  of  a  supposedly  inanimate  tree  I  behold  "a  winged  spirit  in- 
stinct with  Life." 

An  inspiring,  wondronsly  beautiful  sight  is  this,  well  worthy  of  more  detailed  descrip- 
tion. But  I  forbear  in  order  that  I  may  briefly  touch  upon  another  and  far  more  interesting 
phase  of  Odyllic  manifestation,  to  the  perception  of  which  there  is  required  the  exercise  of 
trained  clairvoyant  faculties.  You  will  kindly  pardon  me  for  again  drawing  upon  my  own 
personal  experience.  Careful,  painstaking  research  has  convinced  me  that,  as  before 
stated,  every  object  in  the  visible  world  emits  an  Odic  light  A  long  series  of  experimenta- 
tion in  these  matters  has  likewise  fully  persuaded  me  that  each  species  of  mineral,  vege- 
able,  animal  and  human  life  has  its  own  distinctive  color  of  the  one  same  primordial  Odic 
(or  Magnetic)  Efflourescense  (or  Light).  It  further  appears  that  the  marked  differentia- 
tion and  divergence  of  structural  form,'  as  also  of  essential  quality  and  inherent  essence 
is  primarily  and  fundamentally  due  to  a  synchronous  adjustment  of  the  respective  rates 
of  vibration  of  NUMBER  and  of  SOUND  and  that  color  is  the  index  to  or  key  of  such 
adjusted  two-fo!d  vibratory  ratio.  I  verily  be'ieve  that  Number,  Sound  and  Color,  operat- 
ing in  unison  in  and  through  the  "Aether,"  constitute  the  Triadic  Potency  that  will  eventual- 
ly, when  fully  understood,  rule  absolutely  the  powers  and  principalities  of  Air  and  harness 
them  for  the  use  of  an  enlightened  humanity ;  but  I  frankly  confess  that  I  can  at  present 
adduce  no  proof  or  avouch  no  demonstration  of  the  faith  that  is  in  me. 

I  submit  for  your  consideration  the  foregoing  facts  of  my  own  experience,  offering 
them  to  you  as  corroboratory  evider.ce  of  the  soundness  of  your  own  deductions  and 
conclusions — evidence  valuable  perhaps  for  having  resulted  from  a  line  of  investigation 
somewhat  different  from  your  own  researches. 

Fraternally  yours  for  increased  knowledge, 

A.  J.  DARRAH. 


Colors  generated  from  one's  inner  self  produces  an  odic-radio  activity,  which  is  mani- 
fested as  the  human  aura. 


APPRECIATION 

The  author  has  received  invitations  from  several  distinguished  authors,  editors  and 


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lecturers,  offering  to  publicly  review  this  book  of  Essays,  Lessons,  Health  Hints  and  Flash- 
lights, among  whom  the  reader  may  recognize  John  Milton  Scott,  the  author,  poet  and 
critic;  Ira  Judson  Foster,  A.  M.,  D.  Sc.,  writer  and  editor;  James  L.  Gordon,  D.  D., 
writer,  scholar  and  lecturer  of  national  fame,  pastor  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
of  San  Francisco. 


Man  is  closer  to  the  vibrations  of  fight  of  intelligence  than  any  other  earthly  crea- 
tion, and  is  therefore  made  like  (likeness  of)  the  Creator. 


Music  is  the  universal  religion  as  well  as  the  "universal  language." 


BIRTH  AND  DEATH  OF  LIVING  CELLS 

The  birth  and  death  of  living  cells  were  shown  in  a  meeting  of  the  American  Philo- 
sophical Society,  The  pictures  were  exhibited  by  Dr.  Alexis  J  Carrel  in  connection  with 
a  talk  on  the  famous  "chicken  hearted,"  cells  of  which  have  been  kept  alive  for  nine 
years.  The  pictures  shown  on  the  screen  by  Dr.  Carrel  and  his  associates  Allessandro 
Fabbri  and  Dr.  A.  H.  Eberlin,  proved  the  famous  "heart"  to  be  cell  proliferation;  from 

a  small  fragment  removed  in  1912,  from  the  heart  of  a  chicken  embryo Mr.  Fabbri 

explained  that  every  forty-eight  hours  the  cell  mass  is  removed  from  the  growing  med- 
ium, and  the  new  cells  cut  away  from  the  old  ones.  The  present  "heart"  is  the  1500th 
generation.  The  reels  showing  the  birth  and  death  of  the  cells  were  startingly  beauti- 
ful and  thrillingly  scientific;  in  the  former,  masses  break  away  into  flickerng  lines  and 
finally  form  into  living  cells,  while  in  the  latter  the  operation  is  reversed,  the  dying  cells 
are  cast  off  and  disintegrated — Journal  of  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 


X-RAYS  DISCOVERIES  BY  HARVARD  SCIENTISTS 

X-rays  discoveries  by  Harvard  Scientists  of  how  to  increase  the  penetrating  power 
of  X-rays  to  increase  the  curative  properties  of  X-rays  to  a  point  where  they  may  be  used 
with  the  same  result  as  those  given  by  the  radiations  of  the  immensely  more  costly  radi- 
um, assuming  that  the  claims  are  warranted,  the  Harvard  investigators  have  made  a  rel- 
atively inexpensive  source  equal  in  therapeutic  value  to  one  fabulously  expensive. 

It  is  well  known  now  that  radium  and  similar  chemical  bodies  give  off  three  differ- 
ent streams  of  radiation,  respectively  known  as  the  alpha,  beta  and  gamma  ray,  is  like 


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the  X-ray  in  all  respects  except  that  it  is  much  more  penetrating.  Since  most  of  these 
rays  are  of  very  short  range,  losing  much  of  their  force  in  an  inch  or  two  and  since  it 
is  obvious  that  whatever  value  they  have  in  treating  the  deep-seated  human  ailments, 
such  as  cancer,  must  be  directly  related  to  their  penetrating  power,  radium  has  had  the 
preference  over  the  X-ray  for  medical  purposes  by  virtue  of  the  greater  penetration  of 
it's  gamma  ray. 

The  Harvard  'scientists  have  increased  the  penetrating  power  of  the  X-ray,  by  raising 
the  voltage  of  the  current  passed  through  the  tube.  In  general  terms,  it  may  be  supposed 
that  this  heightening  of  the  potential  shoots  the  X-rays  out  at  greater  velocity. 


THEORIES  UPSET 

In  connection  with  the  visit  to  the  United  States  of  Mme.  Marie  Sklodowska  Currie, 
the  National  Geographic  Society  has  issued  the  following  bulletin  concerning  the  discovery 
of  radium,  "the  great  puzzle  of  the  twentieth  century,"  based  on  a  communication  from 
Dr.  Alexander  Bell: 

"Radium  has  recently  upset  our  most  cherished  theories  of  matter  and  force,"  writes 
Dr.  Bell.  "The  whole  subject  of  chemistry  has  to  be  rewritten  and  our  ideas  of  the  consti- 
tution of  matter  entirely  changed.  Here  is  a  substance  which  emits  light  and  heat  and 
electricity  continuously  without  any  apparent  source  of  supply.  It  emits  light  in  the  dark, 
and  in  a  cool  room  maintains  itself  constantly  at  a  higher  temperature  than  its  environ- 
ment. 

It  emits  the  Roentgen  rays  without  any  electrical  machinery  to  produce  them,  and  we 
have  now  discovered  emanating  from  that  substance  several  different  kinds  of  rays  of  the 
unknown  or  X-ray  variety ;  and  we  now  recognize  the  Alpha,  Beta  and  Gamma  rays  as 
more  penetrating. 


RAINBOW  COLORS 

Rainbows  are  caused  by  refraction,  or  bending,  of  the  sun's  rays  by  the  falling 
rain.  The  color  of  sunlight  ia  a  balanced  mixture  of  all  the  colors  of  the  spectrum.  When 
the  rays  strike  the  raindrops  they  are  bent  at  different  angles,  and  as  different  colors  have 
different  degrees  of  refraction,  we  see  them  in  their  order. 


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